Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 3 , Pages 849.e5-849.e8 , September 2008

Local lymphocytic and epithelial activation in a case of autoimmune oophoritis

  • Anne-Sophie Bats, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Immunology Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine & CHU, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, Nancy, France
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  • Patricia Monnier Barbarino, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Immunology Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine & CHU, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, Nancy, France
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  • Marie-Christine Bene, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Immunology Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine & CHU, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, Nancy, France
    • ,
  • Gilbert C. Faure, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Immunology Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine & CHU, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, Nancy, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Gilbert C. Faure, M.D., Ph.D., Laboratoire d'Immunologie du CHU, Faculté de Médecine, UHP Nancy I, BP 184, 54500 Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France (FAX: 33-383-44-60-22).
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  • Thierry Forges, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Reproductive Medicine, Maternite Regionale Universitaire, Nancy, France

Received 11 April 2007 ,Revised 16 August 2007 ,Accepted 16 August 2007.

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 Supported by a grant from the French Ministry of Health (PHRC 1707).

PII: S0015-0282(07)03391-2

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.08.048

Fertility and Sterility
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