Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 1 , Pages 116-123 , 1 January 2010

Circulating level of macrophage colony-stimulating factor can be predictive for human in vitro fertilization outcome

Received 25 July 2008 ,Revised 16 September 2008 ,Accepted 29 September 2008.

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 A.S. has nothing to disclose. L.M. has nothing to disclose. W.J. has nothing to disclose. S.B. has nothing to disclose. K.K. has nothing to disclose. A.G.S. has nothing to disclose.

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doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.09.083

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 1 , Pages 116-123 , 1 January 2010