Translational animal models to study endometriosis-associated infertility

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 125-132

  Grümmer, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

animal model; endometriosis; infertility; receptivity

Indexed keywords

BETA3 INTEGRIN; CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 43; CYSTEINE RICH PROTEIN 61; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 9; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA10; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; HUMAN; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; OVARY FUNCTION; PAPIO ANUBIS; PERITONEAL FLUID;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; OVARY;

EID: 84874364151     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1333477     Document Type: Article

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