Endometriosis: Harmful survival of an ectopic tissue

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 11, Issue 1 P.447-888, 2006, Pages 595-619

  Garai, Janos ^a   Molnar, Valeria ^a   Varga, Tamas ^b   Koppan, Miklos ^b   Torok, Attila ^b   Bodis, Jozsef ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b Department of Natural History   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Endometriosis; Endometrium; Estrogen; Immune Surveillance; Inflammation; Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor; MIF; Review; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 32944470780     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/1821     Document Type: Review

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