BACKGROUND: Although histological dating of endometrial biopsies provides little help for prediction or diagnosis of infertility, analysis of individual endometrial proteins, proteomic profiling and transcriptome analysis have suggested sev…
This article provides an overview of the evaluation and treatment of female factor infertility. It reviews the physiology of female reproduction and subsequently discusses pertinent findings in the evaluation and treatment of female inferti…
We investigated the prevalence of abnormal screening results (questionnaire and testing for other causes of oligo-ovulation, male or tubal factor infertility) in a group of 1,313 oligo-ovulatory women (included and excluded subjects) whose …
OBJECTIVE: To investigate quantitative aberrations involving p53 copy numbers in eutopic endometrial and endometriotic tissue from two populations. DESIGN: Comparative analysis of normal and diseased tissue. SETTING: Tissue specimens coll…
Endometriosis long has been recognized as showing heritable tendencies, with recurrence risks of 5% to 7% for first-degree relatives. The risk indicates that polygenic and multifactorial etiology is far more likely to be the cause than mend…