Endometrial progesterone and estrogen receptors and bleeding disturbances in depot medroxyprogesterone acetate users

Human Reproduction

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 547-552

  Sereepapong, Wisan ^a,b   Chotnopparatpattara, Pichai ^a   Taneepanichsku, Surasak ^a   Markham, Robert ^b   Russell, Peter ^c   Fraser, Ian S ^b  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate; Endometrial bleeding; Estrogen receptor; Progesterone receptor; Progestogen

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; HORMONE RECEPTOR; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR A; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR B;

ADULT; AGE; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UTERUS BLEEDING;

EID: 1542502590     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deh123     Document Type: Article

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