A botanical extract from channel flow inhibits cell proliferation, induces apoptosis, and suppresses CCL5 in human endometriotic stromal cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 371-377

  Wieser, Fritz ^a   Yu, Jie ^a   Park, John ^a   Gaeddert, Andrew ^b   Cohen, Misha ^c   Vigne, Jean Louis ^c   Taylor, Robert N ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Health Concerns   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Botanicals; CCL5; Endometriosis; Endometriotic cells; Endometrium; Medicinal herbs; Proliferation; Uterus

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CHANNEL FLOW; HERBACEOUS AGENT; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; SULINDAC; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CCL5 GENE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MITOSIS INHIBITION; NICK END LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; STROMA CELL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOSPERMS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHEMOKINE CCL5; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MITOSIS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROMAL CELLS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTORS;

EID: 68049145995     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.075069     Document Type: Article

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