Endometriosis: A dysfunction and disease of the archimetra

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 752-762

  Leyendecker, G ^a   Kunz, G ^a   Noe, M ^a   Herbertz, M ^a   Mall, G ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archimetra; Endometriosis; Hyper and dysperistalsis; Hyperproliferation; Infertility

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CYTOCHROME P450; ESTROGEN; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFLAMMATION; INJURY; PERISTALSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; SUBFERTILITY;

AROMATASE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXYTOCIN; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UTERUS;

EID: 0032436711     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/4.5.752     Document Type: Conference Paper

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