T helper (Th)1, Th2, and Th17 interleukin pathways in infertile patients with minimal/mild endometriosis

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2477-2480

  Andreoli, Carolina Giordani ^a   Genro, Vanessa Krebs ^a   Souza, Carlos Augusto ^b   Michelon, Tatiana ^b   Bilibio, João Paolo ^a   Scheffel, Camila ^b   Cunha Filho, João Sabino ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Endometriosis; infertility; interleukin; Th1; Th17; Th2

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; FOLLITROPIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12P70; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 23P19;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; PERITONEAL FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; TH1 CELL; TH17 CELL; TH2 CELL; UTERINE TUBE LIGATION;

ADULT; ASCITIC FLUID; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAZIL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-12; INTERLEUKIN-17; INTERLEUKIN-23; LAPAROSCOPY; PERITONEAL DISEASES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; TH1 CELLS; TH17 CELLS; TH2 CELLS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 79959690720     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.02.019     Document Type: Article

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