Molecular profiling of experimental endometriosis identified gene expression patterns in common with human disease

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1180-1199

  Flores, Idhaliz ^a   Rivera, Elizabeth ^a   Ruiz, Lynnette A ^a   Santiago, Olga I ^a   Vernon, Michael W ^b   Appleyard, Caroline B ^a  

^a PONCE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

animal model; cDNA microarrays; Endometriosis; rat; validation

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOKINE; GROWTH FACTOR; RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CANCER INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA MICROARRAY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTORY; IMPLANT; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MESENTERY; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMALL INTESTINE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; UPREGULATION; UTERUS HORN; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 34247516883     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.07.1550     Document Type: Article

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