Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 3 , Pages 682-686 , March 2009

P27Kip1 is down-regulated in the endometrium of women with endometriosis

Received 6 September 2007 ,Revised 24 December 2007 ,Accepted 24 December 2007.

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 E.S. has nothing to disclose. I.D.C.G.S. has nothing to disclose. H.S. has nothing to disclose. E.C.B. has nothing to disclose. M.J.B.C.G. has nothing to disclose. V.F. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(07)04379-8

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.12.070

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 3 , Pages 682-686 , March 2009

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