About the Authors

Przemysław Ciepiela

Contributed equally to this work with: Przemysław Ciepiela, Ewa Stachowska, Rafał Kurzawa

Affiliation Department of Reproductive Medicine and Gynecology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin-Police, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland

Tomasz Bączkowski

Affiliations Department of Reproductive Medicine and Gynecology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin-Police, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland, VitroLive Fertility Clinic, Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland

Arleta Drozd

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Human Nutrition, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland

Anna Kazienko

Affiliation Department of Reproductive Medicine and Gynecology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin-Police, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland

Ewa Stachowska

Contributed equally to this work with: Przemysław Ciepiela, Ewa Stachowska, Rafał Kurzawa

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Human Nutrition, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland

Rafał Kurzawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Przemysław Ciepiela, Ewa Stachowska, Rafał Kurzawa

kurzawa@pum.edu.pl

Affiliations Department of Reproductive Medicine and Gynecology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin-Police, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland, VitroLive Fertility Clinic, Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PC ES RK. Performed the experiments: PC TB AD. Analyzed the data: PC ES RK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AD AK ES. Wrote the paper: PC RK.