Fertility awareness-based methods for women's health and family planning

M Duane, JB Stanford, CA Porucznik, P Vigil - Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Fertility awareness-based methods (FABMs) educate about reproductive health
and enable tracking and interpretation of physical signs, such as cervical fluid secretions …

[HTML][HTML] Immunoassay methods and their applications in pharmaceutical analysis: basic methodology and recent advances

IA Darwish - International journal of biomedical science: IJBS, 2006 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Immunoassays are bioanalytical methods in which the quantitation of the analyte depends
on the reaction of an antigen (analyte) and an antibody. Immunoassays have been widely …

Determining menstrual phase in human biobehavioral research: A review with recommendations.

AM Allen, AL McRae-Clark, S Carlson… - Experimental and …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Given the volume and importance of research focusing on menstrual phase, a review of the
strategies being used to identify menstrual phase and recommendations that will promote …

A progesterone biosensor derived from microbial screening

C Grazon, RC Baer, U Kuzmanović, T Nguyen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Bacteria are an enormous and largely untapped reservoir of biosensing proteins. We
describe an approach to identify and isolate bacterial allosteric transcription factors (aTFs) …

A pilot study on the impact of menstrual cycle phase on elite Australian football athletes

MA Carmichael, RL Thomson, LJ Moran… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The effect of the menstrual cycle on athlete performance, wellbeing and perceived exertion
and fatigue is not well understood. Furthermore, it has not been investigated specifically in …

Types of ovarian activity in women and their significance: the continuum (a reinterpretation of early findings)

JB Brown - Human Reproduction Update, 2011 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND There are many types of ovarian activity that occur in women. This review
provides information on the relationship between the hormone values and the degree of …

Scanning electron and light microscopy study of the cervical mucus in women with polycystic ovary syndrome

P Vigil, ME Cortes, A Zuniga… - Journal of electron …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Two types of cervical mucus are recognized, oestrogenic and gestagenic. These are
constituted by different subtypes, and their characteristics change depending on variations …

Home ovulation tests and stress in women trying to conceive: a randomized controlled trial

S Tiplady, G Jones, M Campbell, S Johnson… - Human …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
STUDY QUESTION Does the use of a digital home ovulation test have any effect on the level
of stress in women seeking to conceive? SUMMARY ANSWER No difference was found in …

Ovulation, a sign of health

P Vigil, C Lyon, B Flores, H Rioseco… - The Linacre …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The concept of the ovarian continuum can be understood as a process that occurs during a
woman's lifetime and begins during intrauterine life with fertilization. Women start their …

The use of estrone-3-glucuronide and pregnanediol-3-glucuronide excretion rates to navigate the continuum of ovarian activity

LF Blackwell, DG Cooke, S Brown - Frontiers in Public Health, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The patterns of a woman's normal ovarian activity can take many forms from childhood to
menopause. These patterns lie on a continuum ranging from no ovarian activity to a fully …