Secreted frizzled related protein 1 is overexpressed in uterine leiomyomas, associated with a high estrogenic environment and unrelated to proliferative activity

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1729-1736

  Fukuhara, Ken ^a   Kariya, Masatoshi ^a   Kita, Masato ^a   Shime, Hiroaki ^a,b   Kanamori, Takanobu ^a,b   Kosaka, Chika ^a,b   Orii, Ayaka ^a,b   Fujita, Jun ^a,b   Fujii, Shingo ^a,b  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; SECRETED FRIZZLED RELATED PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL PROTECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXIA; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MYOMETRIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERUS MYOMA;

EID: 0036277973     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.87.4.8375     Document Type: Article

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