52nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, 2-6 November 1996: Differential expression ofIGF-I and IGF-II in entopic and ectopic endometria of women with endometriosis and in women without endometriosis

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 326-329

  Sbracia, Marco ^a,e   Zupi, E ^b   Alo, P ^c   Manna, C ^b   Marconi, D ^b   Scarpellini, F ^a   Grasso, J A ^d   Di Tondo, U ^c   Romanini, C ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ectopic endometrium; Endometriosis; Eutopic endometrium; IGF I; IGF II

Indexed keywords

SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN C;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PERITONEUM ADHESION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROMA CELL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPITHELIUM; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 0031114355     PISSN: 87558920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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