The putative role of cell adhesion molecules in endometriosis: Can we learn from tumour metastasis?

Molecular Medicine Today

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 304-309

  Starzinski Powitz, Anna ^a   Handrow Metzmacher, Heike ^a   Kotzian, Silvia ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; INTEGRIN; UVOMORULIN;

CELL ADHESION; CELL INVASION; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HEMIDESMOSOME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; METASTASIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMA CELL;

CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTEGRINS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS;

EID: 0033168856     PISSN: 13574310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1357-4310(99)01497-5     Document Type: Review

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