Menstrual endometrial cells from women with endometriosis demonstrate increased adherence to peritoneal cells and increased expression of CD44 splice variants

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1745-1749

  Griffith, Jason S ^a   Liu, Ya Guang ^a   Tekmal, Rajeshwar R ^a   Binkley, Peter A ^a   Holden, Alan E C ^a   Schenken, Robert S ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

adherence; CD44; Endometriosis; endometrium; hyaluronan; splice variant

Indexed keywords

CD44V ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HISTOGENESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; MENSTRUATION; MESOTHELIUM CELL; PERITONEUM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROMA CELL;

ANTIGENS, CD44; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PERITONEAL DISEASES; PERITONEUM; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; STROMAL CELLS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 77949918737     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.12.012     Document Type: Article

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