Current concepts of the pathogenesis of endometriosis

Reproductive Medicine and Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-7

  Osuga, Yutaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Endometriosis; Immune cell; Pathogenesis; Uterine contraction

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; GONADORELIN; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 8; MIDKINE; OSTEOPROTEGERIN; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 2; SCATTER FACTOR; SERINE PROTEINASE; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRYPTASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE; MAST CELL; NEUTROPHIL; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; OVULATION; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONEAL FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STROMA CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH17 CELL; TH2 CELL; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

EID: 77649234357     PISSN: 14455781     EISSN: 14470578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12522-009-0031-z     Document Type: Review

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