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Pregnancy-associated and placental proteins in the placental tissue of normal pregnant women and patients with pre-eclampsia at termNick A Bersinger
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Berne, Inselspital G3 855 KKL, CH 3010 Berne, Switzerland
Eur J Endocrinol 147:785-93. 2002....
Serum markers for predicting pre-eclampsiaMarc U Baumann
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Berne, Effingerstrasse 102, CH 3010 Berne, Switzerland
Mol Aspects Med 28:227-44. 2007..Large-scale prospective studies, assessing these markers, are important to justify their clinical use in view of early intervention to prevent pre-eclampsia in the future...
Statistically significant changes of antimüllerian hormone and inhibin levels during the physiologic menstrual cycle in reproductive age womenDorothea M Wunder
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
Fertil Steril 89:927-33. 2008..To define the dynamics of antimüllerian hormone (AMH) and inhibins during the physiologic menstrual cycle...
Second- and third-trimester serum levels of placental proteins in preeclampsia and small-for-gestational age pregnanciesNick A Bersinger
University Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine, Research Laboratory, University of Berne, Insespital KKL G3 825, Berne CH 3010, Switzerland
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 83:37-45. 2004....
Women with preeclampsia have increased serum levels of pregnancy-associated plasma protein A (PAPP-A), inhibin A, activin A and soluble E-selectinNick A Bersinger
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
Hypertens Pregnancy 22:45-55. 2003....
First-trimester maternal serum PAPP-A, SP1 and M-CSF levels in normal and trisomic twin pregnanciesN A Bersinger
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine Research Laboratory, Inselspital KKL G3 825, University of Berne, CH 3010 Berne, Switzerland
Prenat Diagn 23:157-62. 2003....
Endometrial and placental protein markers and ovarian steroids in serum during in-vitro fertilization cyclesN A Bersinger
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Berne, Switzerland
Hum Reprod 10:2149-54. 1995..PAPP-A did not distinguish pregnancy from the other outcomes. The PP14/progesterone ratio was lower, later in the cycle, in CP than in the other groups.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)..
Serum pregnancy-specific beta1-glycoprotein before embryo transfer is related to endometrial thickness and to outcome prognosis in women undergoing in-vitro fertilization treatmentN A Bersinger
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Berne, Switzerland
Hum Reprod 13:1962-7. 1998....
First trimester maternal serum pregnancy-associated plasma protein A and pregnancy-specific beta 1-glycoprotein in fetal trisomiesN A Bersinger
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Berne, Switzerland
Br J Obstet Gynaecol 101:970-4. 1994..CONCLUSION: Maternal serum PAPP-A concentration in the first trimester of pregnancy may prove to be useful in the prediction of risk for fetal trisomies...
Serum leptin and C-reactive protein levels in the physiological spontaneous menstrual cycle in reproductive age womenD M Wunder
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Berne, Switzerland
Eur J Endocrinol 155:137-42. 2006..A cycle-dependence of the markers studied would imply an exact timing of the blood sampling for clinical needs...
Placental protein 14 and pregnancy-specific beta 1-glycoprotein in women with suppressed, normal and stimulated follicular maturationC K Baumann
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Berne, Switzerland
Gynecol Endocrinol 12:231-41. 1998..It is unlikely that SP1 plays this role since it was not correlated to any of the other proteins or steroids studied. Nevertheless, SP1 did not occur randomly over the different groups...
Maternal serum pregnancy-associated plasma protein A (PAPP-A) but not pregnancy-specific beta1-glycoprotein (SP1) is a useful second-trimester marker for fetal trisomy 18N A Bersinger
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Berne, Switzerland
Prenat Diagn 19:537-41. 1999....
C-reactive protein production in term human placental tissueA Malek
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Berne, Inselspital, KKL G3 825, 3010 Berne, BE, Switzerland
Placenta 27:619-25. 2006..The present in vivo and in vitro studies were designed to investigate the production of CRP in human placental tissues...
Comparison of pregnancy-specific beta 1-glycoprotein (SP1) and ultrasound in predicting the date of deliveryA Naiem
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland
Br J Obstet Gynaecol 95:116-9. 1988....
Serum hyperglycosylated human chorionic gonadotropin to predict the gestational outcome in in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection pregnanciesN A Bersinger
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
Fetal Diagn Ther 24:74-8. 2008..Only H-hCG tended to discriminate between these last two groups...
Concentrations of leptin and C-reactive protein in serum and follicular fluid during assisted reproductive cyclesD M Wunder
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Berne, Switzerland
Hum Reprod 20:1266-71. 2005..The aim of the study was to investigate the inflammatory markers C-reactive protein and leptin in serum and follicular fluid and to correlate these with the outcome...
Maternal serum levels of placental proteins after in vitro fertilisation and their implications for prenatal screeningN A Bersinger
University Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Berne, Switzerland
Prenat Diagn 24:471-7. 2004..Assessment of the need to establish normal medians for biochemical trisomy screening in IVF pregnancies...
Air quality in the IVF laboratory: results and surveyS von Wyl
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Berne, Switzerland
J Assist Reprod Genet 21:347-8. 2004
Androgen and gonadotropin patterns differ in HIV-1-infected men who develop lipoatrophy during antiretroviral therapy: a case-control studyD M Wunder
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital of Berne and University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
HIV Med 9:427-32. 2008..We compared androgen and gonadotropin values in HIV-infected men who did and did not develop lipoatrophy on combination antiretroviral therapy (cART)...
Pregnancy-associated plasma protein B (PAPP-B): isolation from human late pregnancy serum and biochemical characterizationM Bossi
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital, , Switzerland
Biochem Mol Biol Int 29:93-102. 1993..3. Spectroscopy measurements between 230 and 360 nm yielded a trp/tyr ratio of 1.1. Amino acid analysis showed that each subunit contained five methionines; this was confirmed by a CNBr cleavage experiment...
Air quality in the IVF laboratory: results and surveyS von Wyl
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Berne, Switzerland
J Assist Reprod Genet 21:283-4. 2004
Basal and cytokine-stimulated production of epithelial neutrophil activating peptide-78 (ENA-78) and interleukin-8 (IL-8) by cultured human endometrial epithelial and stromal cellsNick A Bersinger
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
Fertil Steril 89:1530-6. 2008..To analyze the constitutive production of epithelial neutrophil activating peptide 78 (ENA-78) and interleukin-8 (IL-8) by epithelial cells and the response of these cells to cytokine stimulation...
Adiponectin as a marker of success in intracytoplasmic sperm injection/embryo transfer cyclesNick A Bersinger
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
Gynecol Endocrinol 22:479-83. 2006....
First trimester markers for pre-eclampsia: placental vs. non-placental protein serum levelsMarcel Zwahlen
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
Gynecol Obstet Invest 63:15-21. 2007..Parallel investigation, in a matched case-control study, of the association of different first-trimester markers with the risk of subsequent pre-eclampsia (PE)...
PAPP-A and osteoprotegerin, together with interleukin-8 and RANTES, are elevated in the peritoneal fluid of women with endometriosisNick A Bersinger
Endometriosis Centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Berne, Switzerland
Am J Obstet Gynecol 195:103-8. 2006....
Novel placental and nonplacental serum markers in ectopic versus normal intrauterine pregnancyMichael D Mueller
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Fertil Steril 81:1106-11. 2004..To evaluate whether the serum concentrations of novel placental markers and nonplacental markers differ in ectopic pregnancy when compared with normal intrauterine pregnancy...
First-trimester serum levels of soluble endoglin and soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 as first-trimester markers for late-onset preeclampsiaMarc U Baumann
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Am J Obstet Gynecol 199:266.e1-6. 2008..The aim of this investigation was to assess soluble endoglin (sEng) and soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 (sFlt1) as first-trimester serum markers to predict preeclampsia...
Steroids and protein markers in the follicular fluid as indicators of oocyte quality in patients with and without endometriosisDorothea M Wunder
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Berne, Switzerland
J Assist Reprod Genet 22:257-64. 2005..To investigate the concentrations of steroid hormones (estradiol, progesterone), pregnancy-associated protein-A, IGF-binding protein-4 and leptin in the follicular fluid of infertile patients with and without endometriosis...
Serum levels of macrophage colony stimulating, vascular endothelial, and placenta growth factor in relation to later clinical onset of pre-eclampsia and a small-for-gestational age birthNick A Bersinger
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Berne, Switzerland
Am J Reprod Immunol 54:77-83. 2005..Results are often confounded by a varying fraction of pregnancies affected by foetal growth restriction (FGR) amongst the case and control groups...
Increased ENA-78 in the follicular fluid of patients with endometriosisDorothea M Wunder
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Berne, Switzerland
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 85:336-42. 2006..The aim of the study was to investigate the concentrations of chemokines and proinflammatory cytokines in the follicular fluid of patients with and without endometriosis...
Measurement of anti-mullerian hormone by Beckman Coulter ELISA and DSL ELISA in assisted reproduction: differences between serum and follicular fluidNick A Bersinger
Clin Chim Acta 384:174-5. 2007
Plasma leptin levels in men are not related to the development of lipoatrophy during antiretroviral therapyDorothea Wunder
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital of Berne, Switzerland
AIDS 19:1837-42. 2005..The only predictor of development of lipoatrophy was a higher age (P = 0.02). CONCLUSIONS: Leptin as measured in plasma is unlikely to play a major role in the genesis of lipoatrophy...
2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin increases glycodelin gene and protein expression in human endometriumMichael D Mueller
Endometriosis Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Inselspital, University of Bern, Effingerstrasse 102, 3010 Bern, Switzerland
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 90:4809-15. 2005..Glycodelin (GdA) is an immunosuppressive endometrial glycoprotein critical for embryonic implantation and pregnancy establishment...
