52nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, 2-6 November 1996: Human endometrial leukemia inhibitor factor (LIF) secretion and its relationship to sonographic endometrial appearance

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 320-325

  Hambartsoumian, Edouard ^a,b  

^a HÔPITAL ANTOINE BÉCLÈRE   (France)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Endometrium; Growth; Human; LIF; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; GROWTH INHIBITOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIF PROTEIN, HUMAN; LYMPHOKINE;

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECRETION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

ADULT; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GROWTH INHIBITORS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; LYMPHOKINES; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 0031110778     PISSN: 87558920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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