Effect of BCG vaccine on peritoneal endometriotic implants in a rat model of endometriosis

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 38-41

  Itil, Ismail Mete ^a   Cirpan, Teksin ^a   Akercan, Fuat ^a   Gammaa, Akram ^a   Kazandi, Mert ^a   Kazandi, Ali Can ^a   Yildiz, Pinar Solmaz ^a   Askar, Niyazi ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG); Endometriosis; Immunology; Rats

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; BODY WEIGHT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; ECTOPIC TISSUE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMPLANTATION; INCISION; LAPAROTOMY; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEXUAL MATURITY; STROMA; TAIL; TISSUE SECTION; UTERUS HORN;

ANIMALS; BCG VACCINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; MICROSCOPY; PERITONEUM; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645075704     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2006.00512.x     Document Type: Article

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