Effect of danazol on the immunocompetent cells in the eutopic endometrium in patients with endometriosis: A multicenter cooperative study

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 545-551

  Ota, H ^a   Matsui, T ^a   Igarashi, S ^a   Tanaka, H ^a   Hayakawa, M ^a   Tanaka, T ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

adhesion molecules; Danazol; endometriosis; endometrium; HLA DR expression; immunomodulation; macrophages; T cell subset; T cells

Indexed keywords

DANAZOL; HLA ANTIGEN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 3;

ADENOMYOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFERTILITY; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0030046614     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0015-0282(16)58151-5     Document Type: Article

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