Endometriosis as a neurovascular condition: Estrous variations in innervation, vascularization, and growth factor content of ectopic endometrial cysts in the rat

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 294, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Zhang, Guohua ^a   Dmitrieva, Natalia ^a   Liu, Yan ^a   McGinty, Kristina A ^a   Berkley, Karen J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Inflammation; Nerve sprouting; Neurovascular coupling; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; ESTRADIOL; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; RAT; SYMPATHETIC TONE; UTERUS HORN; VASCULARIZATION;

ADRENERGIC FIBERS; ANIMALS; CYSTS; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HYPERALGESIA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PROESTRUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTOR, TRKA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 38349059203     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00649.2007     Document Type: Article

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