Oral melatonin supplementation improves oocyte and embryo quality in women undergoing in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer
Oral melatonin supplementation improves oocyte and embryo quality in women undergoing in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer
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DOI:
10.3109/09513590.2013.879856
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发表时间:
2014-05-01
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2
通讯作者:
Morimoto, Yoshiharu
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作者:
Nishihara, Takuji;Hashimoto, Shu;Morimoto, Yoshiharu
The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of oral melatonin supplementation on oocyte and embryo quality in patients in an assisted reproductive technologies program. All patients were treated for at least 2 weeks with melatonin (3 mg/day). To evaluate the cumulative effect of melatonin supplementation, we compared cycle outcomes between the first (no supplementation) and second cycles (melatonin supplementation) of patients who completed two treatment cycles. There were no significant differences in maturation rates (p = 0.50), blastocyst rates (p = 0.75), and the rate of good quality blastocysts (p = 0.59) between the first and second cycles. The fertilization rate of ICSI was higher in the second cycle than that in the first cycle (69.3 versus 77.5%). Being limited to patients with a low fertilization rate in the first cycle (