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Fertility and Sterility

Volume 95, Issue 8, 30 June 2011, Pages 2784-2785
Fertility and Sterility

Correspondence
Pregnancy after ovarian superovulation by transdermal delivery of follicle-stimulating hormone

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Because of its size of 32 kDa and physicochemical properties, urinary FSH cannot permeate intact skin. We report the first pregnancy after laser microporation and transdermal delivery of FSH for ovarian superovulation as a substitute for SC or IM injections.

Key Words

Transdermal drug delivery
laser skin microporation
large molecular weight compound
ovarian superovulation
hyperstimulation
follicle stimulating hormone
pregnancy

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N.H.Z. has nothing to disclose. M.M. has nothing to disclose. P.U. has nothing to disclose.

Pantec Biosolutions (Ruggell, Liechtenstein) sponsored the clinical study in Pilsen, Czech Republic.