Brown SE

No ORCID on file · 5 papers in corpus · active 1988-2025

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  • article 1

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  • infertility 2
2025
Sexually transmitted diseases ·doi:10.1097/olq.0000000000002184

BackgroundHyperosmolal lubricants may negatively affect the vaginal microenvironment, increasing the risk for bacterial vaginosis (BV). We compared the incidence of Amsel-defined BV in reproductive-age women exposed to hyperosmolal lubrican…

2024
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0296346

Bacterial vaginosis, characterized in part by low levels of vaginal Lactobacillus species, has been associated with pro-inflammatory cytokines which could fuel uterine fibroid development. However, prior work on the associations between ute…

2021
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0250153

The outer layers of the vaginal epithelium (VE) are important because they accumulate glycogen which, under optimal conditions, Lactobacillus spp. consume to grow and acidify the vaginal microenvironment with lactic acid. We hypothesized th…

2020
Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics ·doi:10.1007/s10815-020-01892-6

Letrozole is a targeted aromatase inhibitor which has primarily been used in post-menopausal women with breast cancer. Recently, it has been utilized in infertile pre-menopausal women because of its ability to enhance FSH production for ovu…

article 1988
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology ·doi:10.1016/0002-9378(88)90229-3

We describe a study designed to assess the role of infertility diagnosis in differentiating participants in an in vitro fertilization program on psychological variables. Three hundred forty-eight in vitro fertilization candidates representa…