How can macroscopically normal peritoneum contribute to the pathogenesis of endometriosis?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 697-699

  Fassbender, Amelie ^a   Overbergh, Lut ^b   Verdrengh, Eefje ^b   Kyama, Cleophas M ^a,c   Vodolazakaia, Alexandra ^a   Bokor, Attila ^a   Meuleman, Christel ^a   Peeraer, Karen ^a   Tomassetti, Carla ^a   Waelkens, Etienne ^b,d   Mathieu, Chantal ^b   D'Hooghe, Thomas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Campus Gasthuisberg ^*  (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^d Interfaculty Centre for Proteomics and Metabolomics   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ferritin; IL 12; IL 6; Peritoneum; qRT PCR

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FERRITIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; SULFATASE; TRANSFERRIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FERRITINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-12; INTERLEUKIN-6; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PERITONEUM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 80052263884     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.06.034     Document Type: Article

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