Immunoexpression of hepatocyte growth factor and c-Met receptor in the eutopic endometrium predicts the activity of ectopic endometrium

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 173-181

  Khan, Khaleque Newaz ^a   Masuzaki, Hideaki ^a   Fujishita, Akira ^a   Kitajima, Michio ^a   Sekine, Ichiro ^a,b   Ishimaru, Tadayuki ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

c Met; Endometriosis; HGF; Immunohistochemistry; Q H score; Tissue activity

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; SCATTER FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECTOPIC ORGAN; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LAPAROSCOPY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MICROVASCULATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STROMA;

ADULT; BIOPSY; CELL DIVISION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LYMPHOKINES; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MICROCIRCULATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0037229843     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(02)04535-1     Document Type: Article

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