Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 3 , Pages 687-693 , March 2009

Expression of interleukin-8 and monocyte chemotactic protein 1 in women with endometriosis

  • Murat Ulukus, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Ege University School of Medicine, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey
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  • E. Cagnur Ulukus, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, Inciralti, Izmir, Turkey
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  • Ege N. Tavmergen Goker, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Ege University School of Medicine, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey
    • Ege University Family Planing and Infertility Research and Treatment Center, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey
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  • Erol Tavmergen, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Ege University School of Medicine, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey
    • Ege University Family Planing and Infertility Research and Treatment Center, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey
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  • Wenxin Zheng, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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  • Aydin Arici, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Aydin Arici, M.D., Section of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520-8063 (FAX: 203-785-7134).

Received 2 November 2006 ,Revised 27 December 2007 ,Accepted 27 December 2007.

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 M.U. has nothing to disclose. E.C.U. has nothing to disclose. E.N.T.G. has nothing to disclose. E.T. has nothing to disclose. W.Z. has nothing to disclose. A.A. has nothing to disclose.

 Supported by a Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Institution (TUBITAK) training award to Murat Ulukus.

 Wenxin Zheng's present address is Department of Pathology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724.

PII: S0015-0282(07)04376-2

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.12.067

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 3 , Pages 687-693 , March 2009

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