Sugar residues content and distribution in atrophic and hyperplastic postmenopausal human endometrium: Lectin histochemistry

Histology and Histopathology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 861-867

  Gheri, G ^a,b   Gheri Bryk, S ^a   Taddei, G ^a   Moncini, D ^a   Noci, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Policlinico di Careggi   (Italy)

Author keywords

lectins; postmenopausal endometrium; sugar residues

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; GLYCOCONJUGATE; LECTIN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ENDOMETRIUM ATROPHY; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MENOPAUSE;

AGED; ATROPHY; CARBOHYDRATES; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FUCOSE; GLUCOSAMINE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; LECTINS; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; POSTMENOPAUSE;

ARMORACIA RUSTICANA;

EID: 0029856130     PISSN: 02133911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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