Serum dioxin-like compounds and aromatase (CYP19) expression in endometriotic tissues

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 238-244

  Heilier, Jean François ^a   Donnez, Jacques ^a,b   Defrere, Sylvie ^a   Van Kerckhove, Valérie ^a   Donnez, Olivier ^b   Lison, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Deep endometriotic nodules; Endometriosis; PCB; PCDD; PCDF

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CYTOCHROME P450 1A1; DIOXIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN RELEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECTOUTERINE POUCH; SMOKING; TUMOR GROWTH; UPREGULATION;

ADULT; AROMATASE; BENZOFURANS; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP1A1; DIOXINS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

EID: 33751193914     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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