Secretion of interleukin-6 by human endometriotic cells and regulation by proinflammatory cytokines and sex steroids

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2269-2275

  Akoum, A ^a,b   Lemay, A ^a,b   Paradis, I ^a   Rheault, N ^a   Maheux, R ^b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Endometriosis; Interleukin 6

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; DANAZOL; ESTRADIOL; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MIFEPRISTONE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL SECRETION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL;

EID: 0029803815     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019088     Document Type: Article

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