Sentences with phrase «egg maturation»

«We can only extrapolate to humans, but in the mouse, our data show that the whole process [of egg maturation] takes 18 to 20 days, and we can detect this asymmetry by the second or third day of the process.

In 1976, Edwards realised that this was happening because a hormone given to the women beforehand to stimulate egg maturation later interfered with the pregnancy itself.

She discovered that in some species, environmental factors control egg maturation and subsequent ovulation; in others, such as rabbits, sexual intercourse with a male or even just his presence causes the release of the egg.

The researchers focused on small regulatory RNA molecules, called microRNAs, which play a critical role in mosquito egg maturation.

Current assisted - reproduction regimens that use hormone injections to induce egg maturation produce at best only a few eggs during each female menstrual cycle.

Gamete collection was combined with advanced in - vitro egg maturation and fertilisation protocols...

Vitamin D receptors have now been identified in almost every tissue and cell in the human body and vitamin D has been found to be directly involved in follicle egg maturation and development.

As women age, baseline FSH levels actually increase, as the stimulation required for egg maturation increases as egg number and viability decrease.

The molecules are critical to normal development: When the genes for certain of these molecules are experimentally erased, the eggs made by female mice are invariably defective, and the errors fatally disrupt the normal choreography of egg maturation.

Once the follicles are ready for retrieval, you'll stop taking the fertility medication and switch to an ovulation trigger, a hormone that brings on the final phase of egg maturation.