Endometriotic disease: The role of peritoneal fluid

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 741-751

  Koninckx, P R ^a,b   Kennedy, S H ^a   Barlow, D H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endometriosis; Human; Peritoneal fluid; Steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; CA 125 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; ESTROGEN; GROWTH FACTOR; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; PLACENTA PROTEIN 14; PROGESTERONE; STEROID; STEROID HORMONE;

ADENOMYOSIS; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CELL INVASION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LUTEAL PHASE; MACROPHAGE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NATURAL KILLER CELL; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PERITONEAL FLUID; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANGIOGENESIS INDUCING AGENTS; ASCITIC FLUID; CYTOKINES; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; OVARY;

EID: 0032406299     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/4.5.741     Document Type: Conference Paper

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