Tubal occlusion causing infertility due to an excessive inflammatory response in patients with predisposition for keloid formation

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 908-914

  García Ulloa, Ana Cristina ^a   Arrieta, Oscar ^a  

^a Instituto National de Cancerologia   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA INTERFERON; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PROCOLLAGEN; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEVICE INFECTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FIBROBLAST; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; KELOID; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; UTERINE TUBE OCCLUSION; WOUND HEALING; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; SALPINGITIS; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS;

CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CYTOKINES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FALLOPIAN TUBE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; KELOID; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; SALPINGITIS;

EID: 27244436109     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.03.031     Document Type: Article

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