Stress, inflammation and endometriosis: Are patients stuck between a rock and a hard place?

Journal of Molecular Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 223-225

  Toth, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; PLACENTA PROTEIN 14; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; CONSTIPATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DECIDUALIZATION; DENDRITIC CELL; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSMENORRHEA; DYSPAREUNIA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFLAMMATION; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT SURVEY; STRESS;

ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77951257089     PISSN: 09462716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00109-010-0595-4     Document Type: Short Survey

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