Signal transduction pathways involved in macrophage migration induced by peritoneal fluid chemotactic factors in stages I and II endometriosis

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1261-1268

  Perez, Maria Claudia ^a   Bodine, Peter V N ^a   Leiva, Maria C ^b   Isaacson, Keith B ^c   Komm, Barry S ^a  

^a Women's Health Research Institute   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Endometriosis; Macrophages; Peritoneal fluid; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

1 [[6 (3 METHOXYESTRA 1,3,5(10) TRIEN 17BETA YL)AMINO]HEXYL] 1H PYRROLE 2,5 DIONE; 9 (TETRAHYDRO 2 FURYL)ADENINE; ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CALCIUM ION; CHOLERA TOXIN; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FORMYLMETHIONYLLEUCYLPHENYLALANINE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; INOSITOL PHOSPHATE; N [2 (4 BROMOCINNAMYLAMINO)ETHYL] 5 ISOQUINOLINESULFONAMIDE; PERTUSSIS TOXIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE A; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PROTEIN KINASE C;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMOTAXIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPY; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION; PERITONEAL FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ASCITIC FLUID; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL LINE; CELL MOVEMENT; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS, MACROPHAGE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PHOSPHOLIPASES A; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0036285927     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(02)03130-8     Document Type: Article

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