Endometriosis: Where are we and where are we going?

Reproduction

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2016, Pages R63-R78

  Greene, Alexis D ^a   Lang, Stephanie A ^b   Kendziorski, Jessica A ^b   Sroga Rios, Julie M ^a   Herzog, Thomas J ^a,b   Burns, Katherine A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE RECEPTOR;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANGIOGENESIS; CHICKEN CHORIOALLANTOIC MEMBRANE MODEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NONHUMAN PRIMATE MODEL; OVARY CANCER; PATHOGENESIS; PRIMATE MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RODENT MODEL;

ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 84981516833     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-16-0052     Document Type: Review

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