The reproductive significance of human Fallopian tube cilia

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 363-372

  Lyons, R A ^a   Saridogan, E ^b   Djahanbakhch, O ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chlamydia; Cilia; Ectopic pregnancy; Fallopian tube; Tubal infertility

Indexed keywords

CHLAMYDIASIS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CILIARY MOTILITY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; METRITIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE TRANSPORT; OVARY CYCLE; OVULATION; PARTHENOGENESIS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; POLYSPERMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; UTERINE TUBE;

CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CILIA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FALLOPIAN TUBE DISEASES; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; SMOKING; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 33745250736     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: 14602369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dml012     Document Type: Review

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