influences of birth brain size on the ratio between newborn serum insulin-like growth factor binding protein-2-and -3 :role of birth size after controlling for the presence of intrauterine growth retardation and of preterm birth

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Relations of estimated birth brain weight (BRW) to circulating Insulin-like Growth Factor-I not-life-threatened newborns:an explanatory role for the part of birth body weight not attributable to BRW is recignizable independntly of the presence of Caesarean Section

Abstract EPO- 18

Relations of gestational age at birth to thre ratio between serum leevels of insulin-like Growth Factor (IGF)-II and IGF Binding Protein 3 in the not-life-threatened newborn: relevance of birth body size beyond the presence of a small birth body weight for gestational age

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Endocrine abortion in assisted reproduction technologies (ART)

Luteal function, endometrial receptivity, endometrial prolactin and glycoprotein secretions, blastocyst-secreted immunomodulant factors and embryo quality are nowadays considered the main determinants involved in embryo implantation control. The endometrial factors are progesterone-dependent. Out of 128 cycles of ART (AIH-IU, GIFT, IVF-ET), performed in 67 women at the Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of Parma during the period 1986-1991, 31 conceptions were obtained (pregnancy rate: 24.21%), 7 of which miscarried (abortion rate: 22.58%). According to these data, ART high abortion rate is possibly connected with poor luteo-endometrial function and poor embryo quality. Controlled ovarian hyperstimulation is thought to inhibit embryo implantation after IVF-ET by decreasing endometrial receptivity. Such a situation can be treated either by exogenous progesterone administration or by tubal techniques (GIFT, TET) performed in non-tubal infertility. Both strategies showed to better endometrial receptivity. A delayed intrauterine embryo transfer at blastocyst stage, when cocultures allow to, is supposed to raise the implantation rate in tubal infertility by enhancing embryo selection and endometrial receptivity. This paper also reports preliminarily on the predictive value of beta-HGC and estradiol levels, as well as of endometrial thickness, on early pregnancy outcome

Relation of brain/ birthweight ratio to the ratio between serum Insulin-like Growth Factor Binding Protein-2 and -3 in newborns free of life-threatening disease: role of Caesarean section

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Prediction of serum Insulin-like Growth Factor (IGF)-Iratio by brain /birthweight ratio in newborns free of life-threatening disease:relevance of Caesarean section

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