Hongchu Bao

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between serum progesterone (P) on the day of embryo transfer (ET) and pregnancy outcomes in patients classified as POSEIDON Group 1. METHODS: This retrospective cohort study was conducted at the R…

BACKGROUND: Hysteroscopic septum resection has been a widespread technique throughout the world in women with a septate uterus. The effectiveness of hysteroscopic septum resection before IVF was equivocal. This study aimed to investigate wh…

RESEARCH QUESTION: What is the effect and underlying molecular mechanism of plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1) on the progress of endometrial fibrosis in intrauterine adhesions (IUA)? DESIGN: The expression of PAI-1 was investigated…

OBJECTIVE: The relationship between sedentary behavior and infertility remains ambiguous and contentious. This study seeks to elucidate this association by analyzing data from the 2013-2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (…

OBJECTIVE: Infertility remains a significant global burden over the years. Reproductive surgery is an effective strategy for infertile women. Early prediction of spontaneous pregnancy after reproductive surgery is of high interest for the p…

The adverse effect of ambient PM2.5 exposure on very early pregnancy (VEP) remains controversial among epidemiological studies but is supported by toxicological evidence. We adopted a multicenter retrospective cohort of 141,040 cycles to ev…

OBJECTIVE: Chronic endometritis (CE) contributes to impaired endometrial receptivity and is closely associated with poor in vitro fertilization (IVF) outcomes. However, the mechanisms underlying CE are unclear. Here, we investigated the rol…

Objective: To evaluate the effect of dyslipidemia on the cumulative live-birth rate (cLBR) in patients without polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) undergoing in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection-embryo transfer (IVF/ICSI-ET)…

Follicular atresia is one of the main processes for the loss of granulosa cells and oocytes from the mammalian ovary and any impairment to premature ovarian failure. Large numbers of studies have demonstrated that granulosa cell apoptosis c…

This study aimed to study the expression of homeobox (HOX)A11-AS1 ( HOXA11 antisense RNA) long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) and the expression of homeobox A ( HOXA9, HOXA10, HOXA11, and HOXA13) genes in the eutopic (EU) and ectopic (EC) endometri…

The present study investigated the effects of endometrial stem cell (EnSCs) transplantation combined with estrogen in the repair of endometrial injury. A total of 30 patients with intrauterine adhesions (IUA) and 30 healthy individuals were…

PURPOSE: To describe the long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) profiles in cumulus cells isolated from polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) patients by employing a microarray and in-depth bioinformatics analysis. This information will help us understand …