Endometriosis - A stem cell disease?;Endometriose - Eine stammzellerkrankung?

Zentralblatt fur Gynakologie

Volumn 125, Issue 7-8, 2003, Pages 235-238

  Starzinski Powitz, Anna ^a   Zeitvogel, A ^a   Schreiner, A ^a   Baumann, R ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Burgerhospital Frankfurt am Main   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endometriosis; Epithelial mesenchymal transition; Plasticity; Stem cell disease; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN; ESTROGEN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; UVOMORULIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL POPULATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLON; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MENSTRUATION; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MESENCHYME; PATHOGENESIS; PELVIS; PERITONEAL ENDOMETRIOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; STEM CELL DISEASE;

EID: 0141781293     PISSN: 00444197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-42276     Document Type: Article

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