Atanas Shterev

TL;DR: It was shown that the cultured cells had 15% clonogenic efficiency and could be induced to differentiate into adipogenic cells containing typical lipid-rich vacuoles and it can be speculated that these cells are engaged into the monthly restructuring and remodeling of human endometrium.

TL;DR: It is believed that efforts to align criteria for definition of recurrent implantation failure (RIF) and attempts to classify different RIF types would develop guidelines for treatment procedures which would result in an increase in patients’ opportunities to conceive.

TL;DR: The study results clearly demonstrate that the aspiration of less than 5 oocytes significantly reduced pregnancy rate, and a large number of oocytes does not lead to an increase of the treatment effect and, at the same time, increases the risk of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome.

TL;DR: In this paper, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) were cultured in the presence of progesterone and the expression of HLA-G was followed-up at protein and mRNA levels.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated for the first time that first-trimester human decidua contains multipotent mesenchymal stem cells that can be grown in vitro for prolonged periods, have clonogenic properties, can differentiate into different cell lineages, and express surface markers specific to mesenchyl stem cells.