More than antioxidant: N-acetyl-L-cysteine in a murine model of endometriosis

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2905-2908

  Pittaluga, Eugenia ^a   Costa, Graziella ^a   Krasnowska, Ewa ^a   Brunelli, Roberto ^b   Lundeberg, Thomas ^d   Porpora, Maria Grazia ^b   Santucci, Daniela ^c   Parasassi, Tiziana ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^d Sabbatsberg Hospital   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cyclooxygenase 2; differentiation; E cadherin; invasiveness; Ki 67; matrix metalloproteinase 9; proliferation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; GELATINASE B; KI 67 ANTIGEN; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INVASION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOSTATIC AGENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PERITONEAL DISEASES;

EID: 78650189246     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.06.038     Document Type: Article

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