Concentrations of both cortisol and cortisone were significantly lower in FF samples obtained from patients that conceived by IVF-ET than in those obtained from nonconception cycles. Conception by gonadotrophin-stimulated IVF-ET was associated with an elevated intrafollicular ratio of cortisol:cortisone, consistent with a low level of intraovarian cortisol oxidation by 11betaHSD.
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