Differential Expression of CRH, UCN, CRHR1 and CRHR2 in Eutopic and Ectopic Endometrium of Women with Endometriosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Vergetaki, Aikaterini ^a   Jeschke, Udo ^b   Vrekoussis, Thomas ^b   Taliouri, Eirini ^a   Sabatini, Luca ^c   Papakonstanti, Evangelia A ^a   Makrigiannakis, Antonis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; UROCORTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IMMUNOREGULATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE HOMOGENATE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; UROCORTINS;

EID: 84876593213     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062313     Document Type: Article

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