Immunology of endometriosis

Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-83

  Senturk, Levent M ^a   Arici, Aydin ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR IMMUNITY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONEAL FLUID; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPERM;

ANIMALS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM;

EID: 0032971552     PISSN: 01650378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0378(98)00079-5     Document Type: Review

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