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Reply: Origin of leukocytes and their profile in follicular aspirates
1 University of Bristol, Department of Clinical Sciences South Bristol, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St Michael’s Hospital, Bristol, UK and 2 Immunogenetics Unit, Department of Genetics, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
3 To whom correspondence should be addressed at: University of Bristol, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, CSSB, Henry Wellcome LINE Laboratories, Whitson Street, Bristol BS1 3NY, UK. E-mail: mike.smith@bristol.ac.uk
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Sir,
We appreciate Dr Akkoyunlu’s interest in our recent article on the origin of leukocytes and their profile in follicular aspirates at oocyte retrieval (Smith et al., 2005
).
Dr Akkoyunlu draws a comparison between our own study on harvested human follicular aspirates at oocyte retrieval and that of Akkoyunlu et al. (2004) on the presence of leukocytes and erythrocytes in the cumulus mass before and after thecal rupture in the mouse. On this basis, it is stated that we have ‘concluded that ... the presence of leukocytes and erythrocytes within