Submucosal uterine leiomyomas have a global effect on molecular determinants of endometrial receptivity

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2027-2034

  Rackow, Beth W ^a   Taylor, Hugh S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

endometrial receptivity; endometrium; fibroid; HOXA10; Leiomyoma; submucosal myoma

Indexed keywords

BASIC TRANSCRIPTION ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN 1; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MOLECULAR MARKER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA10; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA11; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTEROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MYOMETRIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STROMA; UTERUS MYOMA;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; LEIOMYOMA; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77949915984     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.03.029     Document Type: Article

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