Role of chemokines in the pathogenesis of endometriosis

Frontiers in Bioscience - Scholar

Volumn 3 S, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1196-1204

  Nishida, Masakazu ^a   Nasu, Kaei ^a   Narahara, Hisashi ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Chemokine; Endometriosis; Infertility; Review

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CHEMOKINE; BETA CHEMOKINE; CHEMOKINE; CX3C CHEMOKINE; EOTAXIN; EPITHELIAL DERIVED NEUTROPHIL ACTIVATING FACTOR 78; GAMMA CHEMOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 16; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; RANTES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONEAL FLUID; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TISSUE ADHESION; ASCITES FLUID; CELL ADHESION; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ASCITIC FLUID; CELL ADHESION; CHEMOKINES; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RECEPTORS, CHEMOKINE;

EID: 80053118190     PISSN: 19450516     EISSN: 19450524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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