Changes in basement membrane thickness in the human endometrium during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 486-495

  Dockery, P ^a   Khalid, J ^a   Sarani, S A ^b   Bulut, H E ^b   Warren, M A ^b   Li, T C ^b   Cooke, I D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basal lamina; Endometrium; Human; Morphometry

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MIFEPRISTONE;

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BLOOD VESSEL; CAPILLARY; CELL POLARITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL POLARITY; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

EID: 0032406113     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/4.5.486     Document Type: Conference Paper

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