β-HCG/LH receptor (β-HCG/LH-R) expression in eutopic endometrium and endometriotic implants: Evidence for β-HCG sensitivity of endometriosis

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 543-551

  Hudelist, Gernot ^a,b   Huber, Ambros ^a   Knoefler, Martin ^a   Haider, Sandra ^a   Kolbus, Andrea ^a   Czerwenka, Klaus ^a   Helmy, Samir ^a   Kubista, Ernst ^a   Singer, Christian F ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b WORTHING HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HCG receptor; Endometriosis; Expression

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, LH;

EID: 45749136392     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719108316907     Document Type: Article

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