MODERN TRENDS

Safety of testosterone treatment in postmenopausal women
Glenn D. Braunstein

EDITOR'S CORNER

Gay male couples and assisted reproduction: should we assist?
Dorothy A. Greenfeld

PRACTICE COMMITTEE REPORT

Pathogenesis, consequences, and control of peritoneal adhesions in gynecologic surgery

SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION

Workshop report: evaluation of genetic and epigenetic risks associated with assisted reproductive technologies and infertility
Rosanna Weksberg, Cheryl Shuman, Louise Wilkins-Haug, Mellissa Mann, Mary Croughan, Donna Stewart, Catherine Rakowsky, Arthur Leader, Judith Hall, J.M. Friedman, et al.

ENDOMETRIOSIS

Aromatase expression in endometriotic tissues and its relationship to clinical and analytical findings
Pedro Acién, Irene Velasco, Mercedes Gutiérrez and Monserrat Martínez-Beltrán

GENETICS

Human myometrium and leiomyomas express gonadotropin-releasing hormone 2 and gonadotropin-releasing hormone 2 receptor
Jason D. Parker, Minnie Malik and William H. Catherino

IN VITRO FERTILIZATION

A comparison of the outcomes between twin and reduced twin pregnancies produced through assisted reproduction
Chong-U. Cheang, Lii-Shung Huang, Tsung-Hsien Lee, Chung-Hsien Liu, Yang-Tse Shih and Maw-Sheng Lee

Increased efficiency of preimplantation genetic diagnosis for infertility using “no result rescue”
Pere Colls, Tomas Escudero, Natalie Cekleniak, Sasha Sadowy, Jacques Cohen and Santiago Munné

In vitro maturation of oocytes collected from unstimulated ovaries for oocyte donation
Hananel Holzer, Eleanor Scharf, Ri-Cheng Chian, Ezgi Demirtas, William Buckett and Seang Lin Tan

The position of transferred air bubbles after embryo transfer is related to pregnancy rate
Marieke J. Lambers, Erbil Dogan, Jan Willem Lens, Roel Schats and Peter G.A. Hompes

Changes in measured endometrial thickness predict in vitro fertilization success
Grant D.E. McWilliams and John L. Frattarelli

Early serum β-human chorionic gonadotropin in pregnancies after in vitro fertilization: contribution of treatment variables and prediction of long-term pregnancy outcome
Shay Porat, Stephan Savchev, Yuval Bdolah, Arye Hurwitz and Ronit Haimov-Kochman

Aneuploidy rates in embryos from women with prematurely declining ovarian function: a pilot study
Andrea Weghofer, David Barad, Jianming Li and Norbert Gleicher

MENOPAUSE

Postmenopausal hypoestrogenism increases vasoconstrictor neuropeptides and decreases vasodilator neuropeptides content in arterial-wall autonomic terminations
Costantino Di Carlo, Attilio Di Spiezio Sardo, Giuseppe Bifulco, Giovanni A. Tommaselli, Germano Guerra, Emilia Rippa, Vincenzo D. Mandato and Carmine Nappi

Effects of testosterone and estrogen treatment on lipolysis signaling pathways in subcutaneous adipose tissue of postmenopausal women
Hong Zang, Mikael Rydén, Kerstin Wåhlen, Karin Dahlman-Wright, Peter Arner and Angelica Lindén Hirschberg

OVULATION INDUCTION

The prevalence and influence of luteinizing hormone surges in stimulated cycles combined with intrauterine insemination during a prospective cohort study
Astrid E.P. Cantineau and Bernard J. Cohlen

POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME

Evaluation of effects of an oral contraceptive containing ethinylestradiol combined with drospirenone on adrenal steroidogenesis in hyperandrogenic women with polycystic ovary syndrome
Vincenzo De Leo, Giuseppe Morgante, Paola Piomboni, Maria Concetta Musacchio, Felice Petraglia and Antonio Cianci

Lack of effect of short-term diazoxide administration on luteinizing hormone secretion in women with polycystic ovary syndrome
William S. Evans, Ann E. Taylor, David G. Boyd, Michael L. Johnson, Dennis W. Matt, Yarisie Jimenez and John E. Nestler

Administration of exogenous ghrelin in obese patients with polycystic ovary syndrome: effects on plasma levels of growth hormone, glucose, and insulin
Maurizio Guido, Daniela Romualdi, Laura De Marinis, Teresa Porcelli, Maddalena Giuliani, Barbara Costantini and Antonio Lanzone

Pioglitazone reduces the adrenal androgen response to corticotropin-releasing factor without changes in ACTH release in hyperinsulinemic women with polycystic ovary syndrome
Daniela Romualdi, Maddalena Giuliani, Gaetano Draisci, Barbara Costantini, Francesca Cristello, Antonio Lanzone and Maurizio Guido

Serum insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and IGF-binding protein 3 (IGFBP-3) in IVF patients with polycystic ovary syndrome: correlations with outcome
Katherine D. Schoyer, Hung-Ching Liu, Steven Witkin, Zev Rosenwaks and Steven D. Spandorfer

Discovery of distinct protein profiles for polycystic ovary syndrome with and without insulin resistance by surface-enhanced laser adsorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry
Shuyun Zhao, Jie Qiao, Meizhi Li, Xiaowei Zhang, Jiekai Yu and Rong Li

REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Serum human chorionic gonadotropin level after ovulation triggering is influenced by the patient’s body mass index and the number of larger follicles
Laura Detti, Mohamed F.M. Mitwally, Anuradha Rode, Frank D. Yelian, Michael Kruger, Michael P. Diamond and Elizabeth E. Puscheck

Influence of hysterectomy on long-term fracture risk
L. Joseph Melton III, Sara J. Achenbach, John B. Gebhart, Ebenezer O. Babalola, Elizabeth J. Atkinson and Adil E. Bharucha

Do sex hormones influence features of the metabolic syndrome in middle-aged women? A population-based study of Swedish women: The Women’s Health in the Lund Area (WHILA) Study
Yasameen A. Shakir, Göran Samsioe, Per Nyberg, Jonas Lidfeldt, Christina Nerbrand and Carl-David Agardh

Clinicopathologic characteristics of uterine adenomyoma in pregnant women
Jian-Hua Wang, Xiao-Hong He, Rui-Jin Wu and Xiang-Rong Xu

REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY

Different degrees of vascularization and their relationship to the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor, placental growth factor, angiopoietins, and their receptors in first-trimester decidual tissues
Margreet Plaisier, Sharon Rodrigues, Florian Willems, Pieter Koolwijk, Victor W.M. van Hinsbergh and Frans M. Helmerhorst

Remote organ injury induced by myocardial ischemia and reperfusion on reproductive organs, and protective effect of melatonin in male rats
Engin Sahna, Gaffari Türk, Ahmet Atessahin, Seval Yılmaz and Ercument Olmez

Effect of leptin on prolactin and insulin-like growth factor-I secretion by cultured rat endometrial stromal cells
Kamani H. Tennekoon, Thampoe Eswaramohan and Eric H. Karunanayake

Deranged expression of follistatin and follistatin-like protein in women with ovarian endometriosis
Paulo B. Torres, Pasquale Florio, Marcia C. Ferreira, Michela Torricelli, Fernando M. Reis and Felice Petraglia

TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTATION

Intelligent, impedance-regulated, pulsed coagulation in a porcine renal artery model
Christian Wallwiener, Markus Wallwiener, Eva Neunhoeffer, Michael Menger, Keith Isaacson and Wolfgang Zubke

CASE REPORT SUMMARIES

Medical management of early pregnancy failure in a patient with coronary artery disease
David N. Hackney, Mitchell D. Creinin and Hyagriv Simhan

Segregation of chromosomes in spermatozoa of four Hungarian translocation carriers
Anna Kékesi, Edit Erdei, Miklós Török, Sándor Drávucz and András Tóth

Retrograde ejaculation: simpler treatment
Rene Leiva

Azoospermia as a new feature of Fabry disease
Aline Papaxanthos-Roche, Colette Deminière, Frédéric Bauduer, Claude Hocké, Guy Mayer and Didier Lacombe

Oxytocin antagonists may improve infertility treatment
Piotr Pierzynski, Torsten M. Reinheimer and Waldemar Kuczynski

CORRESPONDENCE

Positive expression of the immunoglobulin superfamily protein IZUMO on human sperm of severely infertile male patients
Shinichi Hayasaka, Yukihiro Terada, Naokazu Inoue, Masaru Okabe, Nobuo Yaegashi and Kunihiro Okamura

Repeat vasectomy reversal yields high success rates
Margarita R. Hollingsworth, Jay I. Sandlow, Christopher G. Schrepferman, Robert E. Brannigan and Peter N. Kolettis

Differential expression of selected gene products in uterine leiomyomata and adenomyosis
Mary Levy, Khush Mittal, Luis Chiriboga, Xinmin Zhang, Herman Yee and Jian-Jun Wei

The value of Chlamydia trachomatis–specific IgG antibody testing and hysterosalpingography for predicting tubal pathology and occurrence of pregnancy
Denise A.M. Perquin, Matthias F.C. Beersma, Anton J.M. de Craen and Frans M. Helmerhorst

Prospective, randomized trial of metformin and vitamins for the reduction of plasma homocysteine in insulin-resistant polycystic ovary syndrome
Morey Schachter, Arieh Raziel, Devorah Strassburger, Carmela Rotem, Raphael Ron-El and Shevach Friedler

Open-identity donor insemination in the United States: is it on the rise?
Joanna E. Scheib and Rachel A. Cushing

A Prostaglandin D2 system in the human testis
Christoph Schell, Monica B. Frungieri, Martin Albrecht, Silvia I. Gonzalez-Calvar, Frank M. Köhn, Ricardo S. Calandra and Artur Mayerhofer

Comparison of human chorionic gonadotropin and gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist for final oocyte maturation in oocyte donor cycles
Bruce S. Shapiro, Said T. Daneshmand, Forest C. Garner, Martha Aguirre and Richard Ross

The effect of cinnamon extract on insulin resistance parameters in polycystic ovary syndrome: a pilot study
Jeff G. Wang, Richard A. Anderson, George M. Graham III, Micheline C. Chu, Mark V. Sauer, Michael M. uarnaccia and Rogerio A. Lobo

Prospective evaluation of the optimal time for selecting a single embryo for transfer: day 3 versus day 5
Nicolas H. Zech, Bernard Lejeune, Francoise Puissant, Sabine Vanderzwalmen, Herbert Zech and Pierre Vanderzwalmen

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Single cell diagnosis using comparative genomic hybridization after preliminary DNA amplification still needs more tweaking: too many miscalls
Elpida Fragouli, Joy D.A. Delhanty and Dagan Wells

Reply of the Authors
Geoffrey Sher and L. Keskintepe

Is there a special subgroup of males with adult-onset idiopathic hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism who may respond with increases in sperm concentration after clomiphene citrate?
Fabio Firmbach Pasqualotto and Eleonora Bedin Pasqualotto

Reply of the Authors
Scott J. Whitten, Ajay K. Nangia and Peter N. Kolettis

Roles of leptin and ghrelin in eating disorders?
Simon Ferrero

Reply of the Authors
Lisa F. Schneider and Michelle P. Warren

Finding the right stuff—search strategies can and do make a difference!
Mark A. Damario

Reply of the Authors
Arieh Raziel, Zvi Vaknin, Morey Schachter, Dvora Strassburger, Arie Herman, Raphael Ron-El and Shevach Friedler

BOOK REVIEW

Margaret Rees, Sally Hope and Veronica Ravnikar, Editors, The Abnormal Menstrual Cycle, Taylor and Francis, Atlanta, GA (2005), pp. 1–244 Price: $119.95.
Frank Stanczyk

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