Exposure to industrially polluted water resulted in regressed endometriotic lesions and enhanced adhesion formation in a rat endometriosis model: a preliminary study

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1722-1724

  Yesildaglar, Narter ^a   Yildirim, Gazi ^a   Attar, Rukset ^a   Karateke, Ates ^a   Ficicioglu, Cem ^a   Yilmaz, Bayram ^a  

^a YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; PILOT PROJECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TISSUE ADHESIONS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 77949275775     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.09.028     Document Type: Article

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