Administration of visfatin during superovulation improves developmental competency of oocytes and fertility potential in aged female mice.

Abstract

This study suggests that visfatin administration during superovulation plays an important role in regulating oocyte quality and can improve oocyte quality and fertility of aged female mice.

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Subjects

• Age Factors
• Aging
• Animals
• Chorionic Gonadotropin
• Cytokines
• Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
• Drug Administration Schedule
• Drug Therapy, Combination
• Embryo Culture Techniques
• Female
• Fertility
• Fertility Agents, Female
• Gonadotropins, Equine
• Litter Size
• Male
• Mice
• Mice, Inbred C57BL
• Nicotinamide Phosphoribosyltransferase
• Oocytes
• Ovary
• Ovulation Induction
• Pregnancy
• Superovulation
• Time Factors
• Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A
• Zygote

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Authors

• Kyoung-Hwa Choi
• Bo-Sun Joo
• Sheng-Ta Sun
• Min-Jung Park
• Jung-Bin Son
• Jong-Kil Joo
• Kyu-Sup Lee

Publication date

2012-04-30

Journal

Journal topics

• Fertility
• Infertility

Language

Eng.

Copyright

Fertility and sterility

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Busan, South Korea.

Release reference

Fertil Steril. 2012 May;97(5):1234-41.e1-3

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