The effect of a single dose of mifepristone (RU486) on the fine structure of the human endometrium during the early luteal phase

Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1778-1784

  Dockery, P ^a   Ismail, R M J ^a   Li, T C ^b   Warren, M A ^c   Cooke, I D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b Jessop Hospital for Women   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Endometrial glands; Mifepristone; Morphometry; RU486

Indexed keywords

MIFEPRISTONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LUTEAL PHASE; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0030954657     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/12.8.1778     Document Type: Article

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