Hormonally mediated disturbance of angiogenesis in the human endometrium after exposure to intrauterine levonorgestrel

Human Reproduction

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 77-84

  McGavigan, C Jay ^a   Dockery, Peter ^b   Metaxa Mariatou, Vasiliki ^a   Campbell, Dianne ^a   Stewart, Colin J R ^c   Cameron, Iain T ^a,d   Campbell, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breakthrough bleeding; Endometrium; Levonorgestrel intrauterine system; Progesteron; Vasculature

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; ANTIBODY; CD31 ANTIGEN; LEVONORGESTREL; MARKER; MYOSIN;

ADULT; AGE; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; BODY MASS; BREAKTHROUGH BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DENSITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MENORRHAGIA; PARITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEREOLOGY; UTERUS; VASCULARIZATION;

INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0037248016     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deg023     Document Type: Article

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