Uterine adenomyosis is associated with ultrastructural features of altered contractility in the inner myometrium

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2130-2136

  Mehasseb, Mohamed Khairy ^a   Bell, Stephen Charles ^a   Pringle, James Howard ^a   Habiba, Marwan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adenomyosis; Electron microscopy; Junctional zone; Myometrium; Ultrastructure; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ADENOMYOSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAVEOLA; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DYSMENORRHEA; FEMALE; GOLGI COMPLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTROPHY; MENORRHAGIA; MUSCLE CELL; MYOFILAMENT; MYOMETRIUM; NUCLEOLUS; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SARCOLEMMA; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE ANALYSIS AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UTERUS CONTRACTION; UTERUS DISEASE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MYOMETRIUM; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; UTERINE CONTRACTION; UTERINE DISEASES;

EID: 77952572668     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.01.097     Document Type: Article

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