Ovarian steroid regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor in the human endometrium: Implications for angiogenesis during the menstrual cycle and in the pathogenesis of endometriosis

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 3112-3118

  Shifren, Jan L ^a   Tseng, Jennifer F ^a   Zaloudek, Charles J ^b   Ryan, Isabelle P ^a   Meng, Y Gloria ^c   Ferrara, Napoleone ^c   Jaffe, Robert B ^a   Taylor, Robert N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID RELEASE;

CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOKINES; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE 17-ACETATE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0029829884     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.8.3112     Document Type: Article

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