Background: The biochemical characteristics of the follicular fluid (FF) play essential role in oocyte quality, the subsequent fertilization potential and embryo development. The oocyte quality and metabolism largely depends on follicular microenvironment. Present study aimed to investigate the relationship between oocyte quality and FF homocysteine (Hcy) level in women undergoing to IVF treatm...

oocyte maturation and embryo development are controlled by intra-ovarian factors such as steroid hormones. progesterone (p4) exists in the follicular fluid that contributes to normal mammalian ovarian function and has several critical functions during embryo development and implantation, including endometrial receptivity, embryonic survival during gestation and transformation of the endometrial...

Background: Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic condition characterized by elevated blood glucose levels secondary to absolute impairment of insulin secretion. Maternal diabetes has been demonstrated to adversely affect pre implantation embryo development and pregnancy outcomes. Emerging evidence has implicated that these effects are associated with compromised oocyte competence. Several developme...

background: polycystic ovaries syndrome (pcos) is the most common disorder in infertile women with ovulation sterility. there are some instances of abnormal endocrine in the women stricken by this syndrome and so the clinical results of ovulating induction in them, because of severe response of ovary against ovulating induction, are very discussing and may lead to different results from those w...

Background: The aim of our study was to determine the metabolic profile: glucose, triglycerides (TG), high density lipoprotein (HDL) and cholesterol (CHT) in women undergoing ART (Assisted reproductive technology) cycles and estimate its effect on In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) outcomes Materials and Methods: Forty three women undergoing IVF treatment were included in the study. Patients were all...