1. Editorial

   • Norbert Gleicher

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 2

2. Abdominal Ultrasound-Guided Embryo Transfer Improves Clinical Pregnancy Rates After In Vitro Fertilization: Experiences from 330 Clinical Investigations

   • Rong Li
   • Lihua Lu
   • Wei Wang

   Assisted Reproduction Pages: 3 - 8

3. A Reduction in Intraovarian Arterial Blood Flow Resistance After Ovulation is Necessary to Achieve Pregnancy in Natural Cycle

   • Koji Nakagawa
   • Nobuaki Ozawa
   • Hidekazu Saito

   Assisted Reproduction Pages: 9 - 14

4. Do Lunar Phases Affect Conception Rates in Assisted Reproduction?

   • Sangeeta Das
   • Susanna Dodd
   • Rafet Gazvani

   Assisted Reproduction Pages: 15 - 18

5. In Vivo Assessment of the Regulation of Transforming Growth Factor Alpha, Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF), and EGF Receptor in the Human Endometrium by Medroxyprogesterone Acetate

   • Fernando M. Reis
   • Cintia Lhullier
   • Poli Mara Spritzer

   Physiology Pages: 19 - 24

6. Preliminary Experience with Low Concentration of Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor: A Potential Regulator in Preimplantation Mouse Embryo Development and Apoptosis

   • Barry Behr
   • Stephen Mooney
   • Hongbo Wang

   Animal Experimentation Pages: 25 - 32

7. Successful Pregnancy After the Vitrification of Zygotes Using Commercial Vitrification Solutions and Conventional Straws to Protect Against Infections in Liquid Nitrogen

   • Yoko Kumasako
   • Mami Kumon
   • Yasuhisa Araki

   Case Reports Pages: 33 - 35

8. Successful Pregnancies in Patients with Estrogenic Anovulation After Low-Dose Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Therapy Alone Following hMG for Controlled Ovarian Hyperstimulation

   • Karen L. Lee
   • Grace M. Couchman
   • David K. Walmer

   Case Reports Pages: 37 - 40

9. Reflections and Comments on Regulations of Biotechnologies that Touch the Beginning of Human Life

   • Norbert Gleicher

   Occasional Opinion Pages: 41 - 46