A novel pilot study of endometrial stromal cells and immune cell populations in sentinel uterine-draining lymph nodes during the menstrual cycle and in endometriosis

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1339-1348

  Berbic, Marina ^a   Ng, Cecilia H M ^a   Black, Kirsten ^a   Markham, Robert ^a   Russell, Peter ^a   Basten, Anthony ^b   Fraser, Ian S ^a   Hey Cunningham, Alison J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

endometriosis; immunology; lymph nodes; lymphatic spread; menstrual cycle

Indexed keywords

CD20 ANTIGEN; CD209 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; CD79 ANTIGEN; COMMON ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PARAFFIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIAL STROMAL CELL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; OVARY CANCER; PILOT STUDY; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; STROMA CELL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOMETRIUM; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPH NODE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODES; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PILOT PROJECTS; PLASMA CELLS; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 84880354520     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719113485298     Document Type: Article

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