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Sexual Absorption of Vaginal Progesterone: A Randomized Control Trial

open access: yesInternational Journal of Endocrinology, 2015
Objective. To determine if sexual intercourse reduces absorption of vaginal progesterone gel in women and to determine if progesterone is absorbed by the male during intercourse. Study Design.
Kathryn S. Merriam   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of Progesterone on in Vitro Developmental Competence of Bovine Embryos

open access: yesTurkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technology, 2020
Progesterone plays a key role in the establishment and maintenance of pregnancy in mammalian. Increasing levels of circulating progesterone in the post-conception period are associated with conceptus elongation and high pregnancy rates in cattle ...
Orhan Örnek, Yusuf Ziya Güzey
doaj   +1 more source

Steroid hormone bioavailability is controlled by the lymphatic system

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
The steroid hormone progesterone accounts for immune tolerance in pregnancy. Enhanced progesterone metabolism to 6α-OH-pregnanolone occurs in complicated pregnancies such as in preeclampsia with preterm delivery or intrauterine growth restriction, and in
Rahel Klossner   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

The GABAA antagonist bicuculline attenuates progesterone-induced memory impairments in middle-aged ovariectomized rats

open access: yesFrontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2015
In women, high levels of natural progesterone have been associated with detrimental cognitive effects via the maternal amnesia phenomenon as well as in controlled experiments.
B. Blair Braden   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The interaction between vaginal microbiota, cervical length, and vaginal progesterone treatment for preterm birth risk

open access: yesMicrobiome, 2017
Preterm birth is the primary cause of infant death worldwide. A short cervix in the second trimester of pregnancy is a risk factor for preterm birth. In specific patient cohorts, vaginal progesterone reduces this risk.
L. Kindinger   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mice lacking progesterone receptor exhibit pleiotropic reproductive abnormalities.

open access: yesGenes & Development, 1995
Although progesterone has been recognized as essential for the establishment and maintenance of pregnancy, this steroid hormone has been recently implicated to have a functional role in a number of other reproductive events.
J. Lydon   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Androgens Tend to Be Higher, but What about Altered Progesterone Metabolites in Boys and Girls with Autism?

open access: yesLife, 2022
Background: Evidence exists that steroid hormones are altered in individuals with autism, especially androgens. Despite lower prevalence in girls than boys, evidence of potential alterations in progesterone metabolites is sparse, so the aim of this study
Benedikt Gasser   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of slightly elevated progesterone on hCG trigger day on clinical pregnancy rate in GnRH-ant IVF/ICSI cycles

open access: yesReproductive Health, 2022
Background It was been agreed that significantly elevated progesterone level on the hCG trigger day have detrimental effect on clinical outcomes in IVF/ICSI cycles.
Jing Zhao   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Initiating luteal phase support with sc progesterone based on low serum progesterone on the transfer day in true natural cycle frozen embryo transfers

open access: yesFrontiers in Endocrinology, 2023
IntroductionConcerning contemporary in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) practice, the use of frozen embryo transfer (FET) cycles has become more common than fresh transfers.
Cem Demirel   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Clostridium innocuum, an opportunistic gut pathogen, inactivates host gut progesterone and arrests ovarian follicular development

open access: yesGut Microbes
\Levels of progesterone, an endogenous female hormone, increase after ovulation; progesterone is crucial in the luteal phase to maintain successful pregnancy and prevent early miscarriage.
Mei-Jou Chen   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

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