The effect of hormones on endometriosis development

Minerva Ginecologica

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 375-386

  Parente Barbosa, C ^a   Bentes De Souza, A M ^a   Bianco, B ^a   Christofolini, D M ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine ABC (FMABC)   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Endometriosis; Estrogens; Infertility; Luteinizing hormone; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; CYTOCHROME P450 17; CYTOCHROME P450 1A1; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FOLLITROPIN; HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; BINDING AFFINITY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTROGEN METABOLISM; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORMONE BINDING; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; X CHROMOSOME;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN;

EID: 80054775548     PISSN: 00264784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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