The potential role of exposure to environmental toxicants in the pathophysiology of endometriosis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 955, Issue , 2002, Pages 201-212

  Rier, Sherry E ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dioxin; Dioxin like chemicals; Endometriosis; Environmental toxicants; PCBs; Rhesus monkey; TCDD

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; BENZOFURAN DERIVATIVE; CD3 ANTIGEN; DIOXIN; HALOGENATED HYDROCARBON; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; MITOGENIC AGENT; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY BURDEN; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOLYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE STATUS; INCIDENCE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RHESUS MONKEY; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 0036218890     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb02781.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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