Vitamin D and assisted reproduction technologies: current concepts
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Vitamin D and assisted reproduction technologies: current concepts
Accumulating evidence from animal and human studies suggests that vitamin D is involved in many functions of the human reproductive system in both genders, but no comprehensive analysis of the potential relationship between vitamin D status and Assisted Reproduction Technologies (ART) outcomes is currently available. On this basis, the purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1477-7827
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-12-47