Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 4 , Pages 1035-1041 , April 2009

Amphiregulin is much more abundantly expressed than transforming growth factor-alpha and epidermal growth factor in human follicular fluid obtained from patients undergoing in vitro fertilization–embryo transfer

Received 16 October 2007 ,Revised 4 January 2008 ,Accepted 4 January 2008.

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 Y.I. has nothing to disclose. S.M. has nothing to disclose. T.F. has nothing to disclose. K.S. has nothing to disclose. F.Y. has nothing to disclose. T.K. has nothing to disclose.

 Authors Y.I. and S.M. contributed equally to the work and both should be considered to be the first author.

PII: S0015-0282(08)00028-9

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.01.014

Fertility and Sterility
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