Endocrine Abstracts

Achieving pregnancy through in vitro fertilization requires a minimum number of oocytes recovered during egg retrieval. These oocytes come from ovarian hyperstimulation that allows the entire oocyte cohort to mature. In physiology in a natural cycle, a dozen follicles are recruited at the beginning of the menstrual cycle under the action of the elevation of the FSH (the « FSH window »). Then, follicles secrete estradiol through aromatase under the action of FSH. By n...