Fertility

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Bayesian uncertainty analysis of cetacean demography and bycatch mortality using age-at-death data. 
  • A review of the challenges faced in the conservative treatment of young women with endometrial carcinoma and risk of ovarian cancer. 
  • Accounting for unreported and missing intercourse in human fertility studies. 
  • Adjunctive leuprolide therapy does not improve cycle fecundity in controlled ovarian hyperstimulation and intrauterine insemination of subfertile women. 
  • Adjusting period tempo changes with an extension of Ryder's basic translation equation. 
  • Adolescent and young adult oncology, version 2.2014. 
  • Age of marriage and length of the first birth interval in a traditional Indian society: life table and hazards model analysis. 
  • Aging and fertility patterns in wild chimpanzees provide insights into the evolution of menopause. 
  • Altered blood pressure responses and normal cardiac phenotype in ACE2-null mice. 
  • Alternative projections of the U.S. population. 
  • An N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea mutagenesis screen for epigenetic mutations in the mouse. 
  • Analysis of ectopic pregnancies resulting from in-vitro fertilization and embryo transfer. 
  • Anovulation in cyclooxygenase-2-deficient mice is restored by prostaglandin E2 and interleukin-1beta. 
  • Antimüllerian hormone as a predictor of natural fecundability in women aged 30-42 years. 
  • Association of preterm birth with long-term survival, reproduction, and next-generation preterm birth. 
  • Assortative mating and differential fertility by phenotype and genotype across the 20th century. 
  • Biodemographic trajectories of longevity. 
  • Bone morphogenetic protein 8A plays a role in the maintenance of spermatogenesis and the integrity of the epididymis. 
  • Breastfeeding and postpartum amenorrhea in a traditional society: a hazards model analysis. 
  • C-terminal deletion of the atrophin-1 protein results in growth retardation but not neurodegeneration in mice. 
  • Changes with age in the level and duration of fertility in the menstrual cycle. 
  • Clinical and environmental isolates of Cryptococcus gattii from Australia that retain sexual fecundity. 
  • Comparison of low-technology and high-technology monitoring of clomiphene citrate ovulation induction. 
  • Complications of hysterectomy in women with von Willebrand disease. 
  • Conservation and regeneration of transgenic lines of swine by semen cryopreservation and artificial insemination. 
  • Constant mortality and fertility over age in Hydra. 
  • Continuous extraovular administration of prostaglandin F2alpha for midtrimester abortion. 
  • Criteria for identifying and listing substances known to cause reproductive toxicity under California's Proposition 65. 
  • Date of eclosion modulates longevity: insights across dietary-restriction gradients and female reproduction in the mexfly Anastrepha ludens. 
  • Deficiency of the lipid synthesis enzyme, DGAT1, extends longevity in mice. 
  • Deficits in reproduction and pro-gonadotropin-releasing hormone processing in male Cpefat mice. 
  • Della proteins and gibberellin-regulated seed germination and floral development in Arabidopsis. 
  • Demographic characteristics of Sardinian centenarian genealogies: Preliminary results of the AKeA2 study 
  • Determinants of effective population size for loci with different modes of inheritance. 
  • Developmental constraints in a wild primate. 
  • Diet Shapes Mortality Response to Trauma in Old Tephritid Fruit Flies. 
  • Diversity of ageing across the tree of life. 
  • Do cross-national differences in the costs of children generate cross-national differences in fertility rates? 
  • Do donor oocyte cycles comply with ASRM/SART embryo transfer guidelines? An analysis of 13,393 donor cycles from the SART registry. 
  • Donor oocytes are associated with preterm birth when compared to fresh autologous in vitro fertilization cycles in singleton pregnancies. 
  • Effect of vaginal lubricants on natural fertility. 
  • Effects of changing demographic factors upon women's family status in China: a model of a family status life table and its application. 
  • Effects of demographic and retirement-age policies on future pension deficits, with an application to China. 
  • Effects of psychological stress on human semen quality. 
  • Effects of the status of women on the first-birth interval in Indian urban society. 
  • Effects on pregnancy outcomes of changes in the North Carolina State Abortion Fund 
  • Eligibility and accessibility of magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) for the treatment of uterine leiomyomas. 
  • Endoscopic management of leiomyomata. 
  • Evolution. Getting to the root of aging. 
  • Evolutionary optimality applied to Drosophila experiments: hypothesis of constrained reproductive efficiency. 
  • Fecundability of female twins. 
  • Fertility and infertility in rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • Fertility and patterns of labor force participation among married women. 
  • Fertility challenges for women with sickle cell disease. 
  • Fertility patients' views about frozen embryo disposition: results of a multi-institutional U.S. survey. 
  • Fertility status and symptoms in childbearing couples. 
  • Fertility/longevity trade-offs under limiting-male conditions in mating populations of Caenorhabditis elegans. 
  • First-trimester bleeding and twin pregnancy outcomes after in vitro fertilization. 
  • Flightin is essential for thick filament assembly and sarcomere stability in Drosophila flight muscles. 
  • Genealogical structure among alleles regulating self-incompatibility in natural populations of flowering plants. 
  • Genetic ablation of the steroid receptor coactivator-ubiquitin ligase, E6-AP, results in tissue-selective steroid hormone resistance and defects in reproduction. 
  • Genetic dissection of late-life fertility in Caenorhabditis elegans. 
  • Geographical variation in postzygotic isolation and its genetic basis within and between two Mimulus species. 
  • Great ranging associated with greater reproductive investment in mammals. 
  • Health-based population forecasting: effects of smoking on mortality and fertility. 
  • Helicobacter infection decreases reproductive performance of IL10-deficient mice. 
  • How an individual fecundity pattern looks in Drosophila and medflies. 
  • How big are educational and racial fertility differentials in the U.S.? 
  • How compliant are in vitro fertilization member clinics in following embryo transfer guidelines? An analysis of 59,689 fresh first in vitro fertilization autologous cycles from 2011 to 2012. 
  • Hutterite fecundability by age and parity: strategies for frailty modeling of event histories. 
  • Hypofertility and clomiphene citrate therapy. 
  • Hysterectomy and loss of fertility: implications for women's mental health. 
  • Identification of the sex genes in an early diverged fungus. 
  • Improving the productivity of breeding colonies of Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus). 
  • Individual fecundity and senescence in Drosophila and medfly. 
  • Intergenerational fertility among Hispanic women: new evidence of immigrant assimilation. 
  • Interobserver and intraobserver variability in the histological dating of the endometrium in fertile and infertile women. 
  • Is the scrotal testis normal in unilateral cryptorchidism? 
  • Latent possibility for a change of the fertility behaviors of rural-urban migrants. 
  • Les préférences de fécondité à Shanghai dans un contexte de basse fécondité 
  • Life-cycle effects of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) on an estuarine meiobenthic copepod. 
  • Long-term management of vasovasostomy patients. 
  • Long-term outcome after marrow transplantation for severe aplastic anemia. 
  • Long-term survivors of childhood Ewing sarcoma: report from the childhood cancer survivor study. 
  • Low demographic variability in wild primate populations: fitness impacts of variation, covariation, and serial correlation in vital rates. 
  • Marriage and fertility in China: 1950-1989. 
  • Mechanisms of sexual selection: sexual swellings and estrogen concentrations as fertility indicators and cues for male consort decisions in wild baboons. 
  • Mice without myoglobin. 
  • Minimal phenotype of mice homozygous for a null mutation in the forkhead/winged helix gene, Mf2. 
  • Morphometric analysis of spermatozoa in the assessment of human male fertility. 
  • Mucus observations in the fertile window: a better predictor of conception than timing of intercourse. 
  • NCCN Guidelines Insights: Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, Version 1.2017. 
  • Nonrecursive models of labor force participation, fertility behavior and sex role attitudes. 
  • Ovarian preservation by GnRH agonists during chemotherapy: a meta-analysis. 
  • Permanent loss of male fecundity following sperm depletion in Aedes aegypti (L.). 
  • Personalised estimation of a woman's most fertile days. 
  • Phytochemical mimicry of reproductive hormones and modulation of herbivore fertility by phytoestrogens. 
  • Pollen limitation and natural selection on floral characters in the yellow monkeyflower, Mimulus guttatus. 
  • Predicting longevity in C. elegans: fertility, mobility and gene expression. 
  • Pregnancy outcomes among adolescent and older women receiving comprehensive prenatal care. 
  • Pregnancy outcomes decline with increasing body mass index: analysis of 239,127 fresh autologous in vitro fertilization cycles from the 2008-2010 Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology registry. 
  • Pregnancy outcomes decline with increasing recipient body mass index: an analysis of 22,317 fresh donor/recipient cycles from the 2008-2010 Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Clinic Outcome Reporting System registry. 
  • Pregnancy rates in donor oocyte cycles compared to similar autologous in vitro fertilization cycles: an analysis of 26,457 fresh cycles from the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology. 
  • Preterm birth, long-term survival, and fertility. 
  • Priorities for family building among patients and partners seeking treatment for infertility. 
  • Proceedings from the American College of Rheumatology Reproductive Health Summit: the management of fertility, pregnancy, and lactation in women with autoimmune and systemic inflammatory diseases. 
  • Quality of Life and Long-Term Therapy in Patients with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia. 
  • Rapid behavioral and genomic responses to social opportunity. 
  • Reexamining the link of early childbearing to marriage and to subsequent fertility. 
  • Regulation of cAMP and cGMP signaling: new phosphodiesterases and new functions. 
  • Reproduction and survival in Mediterranean fruit flies: a "protein and energy" free radical model of aging. 
  • Reproductive potential predicts longevity of female Mediterranean fruitflies. 
  • Sex preference and third birth intervals in a traditional Indian society. 
  • Spatially and temporally varying selection on intrapopulation quantitative trait loci for a life history trade-off in Mimulus guttatus. 
  • Spread of North American wind-dispersed trees in future environments. 
  • Structure-activity studies of 2,3,4,4a,5,9b-hexahydroindeno[1,2-c]pyridines as antispermatogenic agents for male contraception. 
  • Studying human fertility and environmental exposures. 
  • Systemic mechanisms of individual reproductive life history in female Medflies. 
  • The Drosophila copper transporter Ctr1C functions in male fertility. 
  • The carboxypeptidase E knockout mouse exhibits endocrinological and behavioral deficits. 
  • The case for negative senescence. 
  • The cervical cap: effectiveness, safety, and acceptability as a barrier contraceptive. 
  • The correlation of fecundability among twins: evidence of a genetic effect on fertility? 
  • The cost of reinforcement: selection on flower color in allopatric populations of Phlox drummondii. 
  • The effect of pregnancy on adolescent growth and development. 
  • The effects of quantitative fecundity in the haploid stage on reproductive success and diploid fitness in the aquatic peat moss Sphagnum macrophyllum. 
  • The evolution of larval morphology and swimming performance in ascidians. 
  • The impact of cyclophosphamide on menstruation and pregnancy in women with rheumatologic disease. 
  • The impact of diet switching reproduction and longevity in on resource allocation to Mediterranean fruitflies 
  • The naturally occurring luteinizing hormone surge is diminished in mice lacking estrogen receptor Beta in the ovary. 
  • The reversible antifertility effect of Piper betle Linn. on Swiss albino male mice. 
  • The role of breast-feeding beyond postpartum amenorrhoea on the return of fertility in India: a life table and hazards model analysis. 
  • The timing of the "fertile window" in the menstrual cycle: day specific estimates from a prospective study. 
  • Third-party reproduction in the Internet Age: the new, patient-centered landscape. 
  • Thresholds for thermal damage to normal tissues: an update. 
  • Treatment of infertility does not increase the risk of ovarian cancer among women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation. 
  • Trends In State-Level Child Mortality, Maternal Mortality, And Fertility Rates In India. 
  • Urinary follicle-stimulating hormone as a measure of natural fertility in a community cohort. 
  • Variation and fitness costs for tolerance to different types of herbivore damage in Boechera stricta genotypes with contrasting glucosinolate structures. 
  • Waiting to Conceive After an Early Pregnancy Loss. 
  • What does a fly's individual fecundity pattern look like? The dynamics of resource allocation in reproduction and ageing. 
  • What fecundity patterns indicate about aging and longevity: insights from Drosophila studies. 
  • White and nonwhite trends in first birth timing: Comparisons using vital registration and current population surveys 
  • Women's empowerment and fertility: a review of the literature. 
  • [A model of resource reallocation during physiological adaptation in Mediterranean fruit fly females]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Alberts, Susan C., Bass Fellow, Duke Science & Society
  • Gibson-Davis, Christina M., Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy
  • Myers, Evan Robert, Walter L. Thomas Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Pusey, Anne, James B. Duke Professor Emerita of Evolutionary Anthropology, Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Soderling, Scott Haydn, Professor in Cell Biology, Cell Biology