Background: Infertility problem affects young couples. One of the known causes of spermatogenic disorder is chemotherapy in patients with cancer. Since dividing cells are mainly affected by anticancer drugs, the aim of the present study is to investigate the preventive effect of GnRH on spermatogenic defect produced by anticancer drug. Materials and Methods: In the present study 30 adult female...

BACKGROUND In order to investigate whether gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonists exert a significant effect on steroid secretion in vivo compared with GnRH agonists, concentrations of sex steroid hormones (oestradiol, progesterone and testosterone) were studied in follicular fluid from women undergoing ovarian stimulation and treated with either GnRH agonist or antagonist. In addit...