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Onder Celik1, Aynur Ersahin, Nur D Gungor
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Private Clinic, Usak (O.C.); Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Bahcesehir University Goztepe Medicalpark Hospital (A.E., N.D.G.); and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Halic University (U.U.), Istanbul; Department of Biochemistry, Behcet Uz Children's Hospital, Izmir (N.C.); Department of Medical Biochemistry, Yerkoy State Hospital, Yozgat (M.Y.); Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Firat University (A.T.); Firat University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Molecular Biology and Genetics Program (S.D.); and Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Firat University (T.K.), Elazig; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Altinbas University Medical Faculty, Istanbul (S.E.), Turkey; Medical Faculty, University of Sofia 'St. Kliment Ohridski', Sofia, Bulgaria (S.C.); and Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Firat University, Elazig, Turkey (R.F.A.).
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(Abstracted from Reprod Biomed Online 2025;51(2):104697, doi:10.1016/j.rbmo.2024.104697) Receptivity modulators control and facilitate cell differentiation and embryo development as well as inflammatory pathways and suppression of paternal alloantigens. Molecular changes driven by the microenvironment of the endometrium drive endometrial thickening that prepares the uterus for implantation.
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