Skip Navigation

This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF ) Freely available
Right arrow Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (1)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Loumaye, E.
Right arrow Articles by Baird, D.T.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Loumaye, E.
Right arrow Articles by Baird, D.T.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Human Reproduction, Vol. 18, No. 12, 2719-2720, December 2003
© 2003 European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology

Clinical evidence for an LH ceiling?

Ernest Loumaye1,5, P. Engrand2, Z. Shoham3, S.G. Hillier4 and D.T. Baird4

1 Department of Gynecology, Cliniques universitaires St Luc, University of Louvain, B-1200 Bruxelles, Belgium, 2 Serono International, Geneva, Switzerland, 3 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel and 4 University of Edinburgh Centre for Reproductive Biology, Edinburgh, UK

5 To whom correspondence should be addressed. e-mail: ernest.loumaye@wanadoo.fr

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

Dear Sir,

We read with interest the letter by M.Filicori (Filicori et al., 2003Go) commenting on our pilot studies published earlier in Human Reproduction (Loumaye et al., 2003Go).

Filicori et al. remind us that they have repeatedly reported a reduction in ‘small’ follicles (<10 mm) by administering LH activity during the follicular phase. This supports a ‘ceiling’ for LH on antral follicles with a diameter <10 mm; however, they challenge such effect of LH on larger follicles (>10 mm). This is based on four pilot studies published by the same . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Mol Hum ReprodHome page
A. A. Murray, A. K.E. Swales, R. E. Smith, M. D. Molinek, S. G. Hillier, and N. Spears
Follicular growth and oocyte competence in the in vitro cultured mouse follicle: effects of gonadotrophins and steroids
Mol. Hum. Reprod., February 1, 2008; 14(2): 75 - 83.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]