Human Reproduction

Editorial follow-up:

Richard P. Dickey

Clinical as well as statistical knowledge is needed when determining how subfertility trials are analysed
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2495-2496; doi:10.1093/humrep/deh019 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andy Vail and Liz Gardener

Reply
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2496-2497; doi:10.1093/humrep/deh020 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

S. Daya

Reply
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2497-2498; doi:10.1093/humrep/deh021 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

DEBATES:

E.J.P. van Santbrink and B.C.J.M. Fauser

Is there a future for ovulation induction in the current era of assisted reproduction?
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2499-2502; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg515 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Debates continued:

M.M. Binda, C.R. Molinas, and P.R. Koninckx

Reactive oxygen species and adhesion formation: Clinical implications in adhesion prevention
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2503-2507; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg481 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eamonn R. Maher, Masoud Afnan, and Christopher L. Barratt

Epigenetic risks related to assisted reproductive technologies: Epigenetics, imprinting, ART and icebergs?
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2508-2511; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg486 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Manuel Neves-e-Castro

Menopause in crisis post-Women’s Health Initiative? A view based on personal clinical experience
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2512-2518; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg487 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrology:

S. Weidinger, A. Mayerhofer, M.B. Frungieri, V. Meineke, J. Ring, and F.M. Kohn

Mast cell–sperm interaction: evidence for tryptase and proteinase-activated receptors in the regulation of sperm motility
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2519-2524; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg476 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

R. Hauser, N.P. Singh, Z. Chen, L. Pothier, and L. Altshul

Lack of an association between environmental exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls and p,p'-DDE and DNA damage in human sperm measured using the neutral comet assay
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2525-2533; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg508 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

L. Negri, E. Albani, M. DiRocco, G. Morreale, P. Novara, and P.E. Levi-Setti

Testicular sperm extraction in azoospermic men submitted to bilateral orchidopexy
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2534-2539; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg497 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Early pregnancy:

R. Rai, E. Tuddenham, M. Backos, S. Jivraj, S. El’Gaddal, S. Choy, B. Cork, and L. Regan

Thromboelastography, whole-blood haemostasis and recurrent miscarriage
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2540-2543; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg494 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C.S. von Kaisenberg, F. Prols, K.H. Nicolaides, N. Maass, I. Meinhold-Heerlein, and B. Brand-Saberi

Glycosaminoglycans and proteoglycans in the skin of aneuploid fetuses with increased nuchal translucency
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2544-2561; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg499 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] Supplementary Material [Request Permissions]  

Siobhan Quenby, Roy Farquharson, Michelle Young, and Gill Vince

Successful pregnancy outcome following 19 consecutive miscarriages: Case report
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2562-2564; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg502 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Embryology:

Josien G. Derhaag, Edith Coonen, Marijke Bras, J.Marij Bergers Janssen, Rosie Ignoul-Vanvuchelen, Joep P.M. Geraedts, Johannes L.H. Evers, and John C.M. Dumoulin

Chromosomally abnormal cells are not selected for the extra-embryonic compartment of the human preimplantation embryo at the blastocyst stage
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2565-2574; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg485 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

S. Ziebe, K. Lundin, A. Loft, C. Bergh, A. Nyboe Andersen, U. Selleskog, D. Nielsen, C. Grøndahl, H. Kim, and J.-C. Arce

FISH analysis for chromosomes 13, 16, 18, 21, 22, X and Y in all blastomeres of IVF pre-embryos from 144 randomly selected donated human oocytes and impact on pre-embryo morphology
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2575-2581; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg489 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J.-C. Huang, W.-S.A. Wun, J.S. Goldsby, I.C. Wun, S.M. Falconi, and K.K. Wu

Prostacyclin enhances embryo hatching but not sperm motility
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2582-2589; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg490 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gynaecology:

A. Cagnacci, D. Pirillo, S. Malmusi, S. Arangino, C. Alessandrini, and A. Volpe

Early outcome of myomectomy by laparotomy, minilaparotomy and laparoscopically assisted minilaparotomy. A randomized prospective study
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2590-2594; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg478 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nobuhiro Suzumori, Mayumi Sugiura-Ogasawara, Kinue Katano, and Kaoru Suzumori

Women with endometriosis have increased levels of placental growth factor in the peritoneal fluid compared with women with cystadenomas
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2595-2598; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg491 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gabriel Oelsner, Shlomo B. Cohen, David Soriano, Dahlia Admon, Shlomo Mashiach, and Howard Carp

Minimal surgery for the twisted ischaemic adnexa can preserve ovarian function
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2599-2602; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg498 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jeremy Hawe, Jason Abbott, Graham Phillips, Nafisa Wilkinson, Sean Duffy, and Ray Garry

In-vitro and in-vivo histochemical and thermal studies using a thermal balloon endometrial ablation system for varying treatment times
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2603-2607; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg503 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

G.W.Y. Cheung, I.H. Lok, A. Wong, and S.K. Yip

Unsuspected pregnancy at hysterosalpingography: a report of three cases with different outcomes
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2608-2609; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg495 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Fertility control:

Kevin A. Burton, Teresa A. Henderson, Stephen G. Hillier, J.Ian Mason, Fouad Habib, Robert M. Brenner, and Hilary O.D. Critchley

Local levonorgestrel regulation of androgen receptor and 17-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 expression in human endometrium
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2610-2617; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg510 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Infertility:

Paul Serhal, Domenico Massimo Ranieri, Iffat Khadum, and Rami Antoine Wakim

Cervical dilatation with hygroscopic rods prior to ovarian stimulation facilitates embryo transfer
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2618-2620; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg477 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J.A. Land, A.P. Gijsen, A.G.H. Kessels, M.E.P. Slobbe, and C.A. Bruggeman

Performance of five serological chlamydia antibody tests in subfertile women
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2621-2627; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg479 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

G. Freundl, E. Godehardt, P.A. Kern, P. Frank-Herrmann, H.J. Koubenec, and Ch. Gnoth

Estimated maximum failure rates of cycle monitors using daily conception probabilities in the menstrual cycle
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2628-2633; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg488 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arthur W. Sagoskin, Bruce A. Lessey, Gilbert L. Mottla, Kevin S. Richter, Ryszard J. Chetkowski, AnneLynn S. Chang, Michael J. Levy, and Robert J. Stillman

Salpingectomy or proximal tubal occlusion of unilateral hydrosalpinx increases the potential for spontaneous pregnancy
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2634-2637; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg509 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Psychology and counselling:

L. Schmidt, B.E. Holstein, J. Boivin, T. Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, J. Blaabjerg, F. Hald, P.E. Rasmussen, and A. Nyboe Andersen

High ratings of satisfaction with fertility treatment are common: findings from the Copenhagen Multi-centre Psychosocial Infertility (COMPI) Research Programme
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2638-2646; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg505 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. Emery, M.-D. Béran, J. Darwiche, L. Oppizzi, V. Joris, R. Capel, P. Guex, and M. Germond

Results from a prospective, randomized, controlled study evaluating the acceptability and effects of routine pre-IVF counselling
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2647-2653; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg501 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reproductive biology:

K.L.T. Schmidt, E. Ernst, A.G. Byskov, A. Nyboe Andersen, and C. Yding Andersen

Survival of primordial follicles following prolonged transportation of ovarian tissue prior to cryopreservation
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2654-2659; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg500 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. Kanatsu-Shinohara, N. Ogonuki, K. Inoue, A. Ogura, S. Toyokuni, and T. Shinohara

Restoration of fertility in infertile mice by transplantation of cryopreserved male germline stem cells
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2660-2667; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg483 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ming-Yih Wu, Kuang-Han Chao, Jehn-Hsiahn Yang, Tsung-Hsien Lee, Yu-Shih Yang, and Hong-Nerng Ho

Nitric oxide synthesis is increased in the endometrial tissue of women with endometriosis
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2668-2671; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg484 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C.M. Perks, P.V. Newcomb, M. Grohmann, R.J. Wright, H.D. Mason, and J.M.P. Holly

Prolactin acts as a potent survival factor against C2-ceramide-induced apoptosis in human granulosa cells
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2672-2677; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg496 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Raffaella Depalo, Luigi Nappi, Giuseppe Loverro, Stefano Bettocchi, Maria Lucia Caruso, Anna Maria Valentini, and Luigi Selvaggi

Evidence of apoptosis in human primordial and primary follicles
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2678-2682; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg507 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reproductive endocrinology:

M. Maliqueo, I. Atwater, R. Lahsen, F. Pérez-Bravo, B. Angel, and T. Sir-Petermann

Proinsulin serum concentrations in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a marker of -cell dysfunction?
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2683-2688; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg482 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joana Peñarrubia, Francisco Fábregues, Montserrat Creus, Dolors Manau, Roser Casamitjana, Marta Guimerá, Francisco Carmona, Juan A. Vanrell, and Juan Balasch

LH serum levels during ovarian stimulation as predictors of ovarian response and assisted reproduction outcome in down-regulated women stimulated with recombinant FSH
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2689-2697; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg506 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Renato Fanchin, Laurent Salomon, Altina Castelo-Branco, François Olivennes, Nelly Frydman, and René Frydman

Luteal estradiol pre-treatment coordinates follicular growth during controlled ovarian hyperstimulation with GnRH antagonists
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2698-2703; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg516 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reproductive epidemiology:

J.S. Tolstrup, S.K. Kjær, C. Munk, L.B. Madsen, B. Ottesen, T. Bergholt, and M. Grønbæk

Does caffeine and alcohol intake before pregnancy predict the occurrence of spontaneous abortion?
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2704-2710; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg480 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M-L.B. Dick, C.J. Bain, D.M. Purdie, V. Siskind, D. Molloy, and A.C. Green

Self-reported difficulty in conceiving as a measure of infertility
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2711-2717; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg504 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the editor:

Ernest Loumaye, P. Engrand, Z. Shoham, S.G. Hillier, and D.T. Baird

Clinical evidence for an LH ceiling?
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2719-2720; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg493 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Erratum:

Erratum
Hum. Reprod. 2003 18: 2726; doi:10.1093/humrep/deg517 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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