Organ fibrosis is a pathological process characterized by the inability of normal tissue cells to regenerate sufficiently to meet the dynamic repair demands of chronic injury, resulting in excessive extracellular matrix deposition and ultim…
OBJECTIVE: We compared the pregnancy and perinatal outcomes between expanded blastocysts vitrified on D5 versus D6 following single frozen blastocyst transfer. METHODS: Clinical data on 7,606 cycles of frozen-thawed blastocyst implantation…
RATIONALE: Uterine rupture (UR) during pregnancy is a serious obstetric complication. Here we report a case of spontaneous rupture in an unscarred uterus at 13 weeks of gestation after in vitro fertilization embryo transfer, which is not co…
PURPOSE: To evaluate the association between body mass index (BMI) and pregnancy outcomes in women receiving intrauterine insemination (IUI) treatment. METHODS: The study included 6407 women undergoing 13,745 IUI cycles stratified by BMI. …
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to investigate whether individual response of anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) to gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) treatment is associated with difference in ovarian stimulation outcomes. METHODS: The…
Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent disease. We previously found that the expression of Activin A was upregulated in the peritoneal fluid of patients with endometriosis. The results of the present study indicated that Activin A induced e…
Activin A can stimulate aromatase P450 (P450arom) expression in eutopic endometrial stromal cells (ESCs) of endometriosis by activin type I receptor-Smad pathway. In order to identify Smad3/4 binding to P450arom promoter II that mediates ac…
OBJECTIVE: To study clinical efficacy of leuprorelin acetate in treatment of uterine adenomyosis with infertility. METHODS: From January 1,2011 to March 31,2012, 166 cycles in 166 infertile patients combined with uterine adenomyosis underg…