Increased expression of LH/hCG receptors in endometrial hyperplasia and carcinoma in anovulatory women

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 273-280

  Konishi, Ikuo ^a   Koshiyama, Masafumi ^a   Mandai, Masaki ^a   Kuroda, Hideki ^a   Yamamoto, Shinichi ^a   Nanbu, Kanako ^a   Komatsu, Takayuki ^a   Matsushita, Katsuko ^a   Rao, Ch V ^b   Mori, Takahide ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; ESTRADIOL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; RECEPTOR DENSITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 17544399003     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gyno.1997.4656     Document Type: Article

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