Current understanding of endometrial stem cells

Expert Review of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 273-282

  Alcaraz, Irene Cervell ^a   Gil Sanchis, Claudia ^a   Perucho, Aymara Mas ^a   Valles, Carlos Simn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clonogenicity; Endometrial pathology; Endometrial stem cell; Endometrium; Label retaining cell; Mesenchymal stem cell; Side population; Somatic stem cell

Indexed keywords

5' NUCLEOTIDASE; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; BETA1 INTEGRIN; CD146 ANTIGEN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BB; SOMATOMEDIN C; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; THY 1 ANTIGEN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ADENOMYOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLONOGENESIS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; METHYLATION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; STEM CELL; TISSUE REGENERATION;

EID: 77951784955     PISSN: 17474108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/eog.09.12     Document Type: Review

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