Does incongruent follicular development reduce gamete intrafallopian transfer pregnancy rate?
Incongruent follicular development during controlled ovarian hyperstimulation has a marked negative influence on the outcome of GIFT cycles. Factors such as side of the gamete transfer and oocyte quality did not account for the observed differences.
These data suggest that human DPC, like osteogenic cells, acquire responsiveness to pulsating fluid shear stress in mineralizing conditions. Thus DPC might be able to perform bone-like functions during mineralized tissue remodeling in vivo, and therefore provide a promising new tool for mineralized tissue engineering to restore, for example, maxillofacial defects.