PURPOSE: The objective was to determine the effects of women's age on the ovarian fecundity as assessed by the incidence of apoptotic granulosa cells. METHODS: Twenty-eight normo-ovulatory women underwent ovulation induction for standard I…
PURPOSE: The aim was to investigate which ovarian hyperstimulation protocol performed in the same patients causes development of oocytes of good quality. METHODS: Twenty normo-ovulatory women underwent three different controlled ovarian hy…
PURPOSE: This study was designed to examine whether hyaluronic acid (HA) inhibits apoptosis in cumulus and mural granulosa cells and to examine whether this effect of HA was mediated through CD44. METHODS: Mural and cumulus granulosa cells…
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether folliculogenesis is impaired in patients with endometriosis. DESIGN: Prospective study. SETTING: Yamagata University School of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan. PATIENT(S): Thirty women participating in an IVF pr…