title: The development of fertility assay kits: an overview.
abstract: This paper analyzes the importance of developing fertility assays kits, specially in order to shorten the estimate of the fertile period in NFP users. It presents the criteria that an assay kit needs to meet. Urinary hormones, metabolites of progesterone, estrogens, and luteinizing hormones are analyzed as fertile-period markers. Progesterone and estradiol in saliva, as well as other constituents of saliva, the volumetric vaginal aspirator, and the change in the electrical conductivity of the vaginal fluid are also analyzed with the same purposes.
mesh_terms: D005193:Family Planning Services; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility; D012739:Gonadal Steroid Hormones / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D012252:Natural Family Planning Methods; D010061:Ovulation Detection; D011933:Reagent Kits, Diagnostic
chemical_list: D012739:Gonadal Steroid Hormones; D011933:Reagent Kits, Diagnostic