Outbreaks of infectious disease often result from exposure to a common source of the etiologic
agent. Generally, the etiologic agent causing an outbreak of infection is derived from a …

Background Endometriosis is the presence of endometrial glands or stroma in sites other
than the uterine cavity. It is variable in both its surgical appearance and clinical manifestation, …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of fibroids on fertility and of myomectomy in improving
outcomes. DESIGN: Systematic literature review and meta-analysis of existing controlled …

Background The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) systems for
nomenclature of symptoms of normal and abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) in the …

The cytolytic function of natural killer (NK) cells is induced by the engagement of a series of
activating receptors and coreceptors some of which have recently been identified and …

Certain interactions, such as nuclear forces and the forces of'high-energy'physics, which
arise in the theory of elementary particles, cannot be described successfully by quantum field …

Head and neck cancers positive for human papillomavirus (HPV) have a more favorable
clinical outcome than HPV-negative cancers, but it is unknown why this is the case. We …

Background In the past decade, advances in the understanding of nutrient requirements of
embryos, has led to the evolution of culture media designed to support extended culture of …

A previous construction of unitary representations of the Virasoro algebra is extended and
interpreted physically in terms of a coset space quark model. The quaternionic projective …

Although numerous etiologies for endometriosis have been proposed, it is clear that
retrograde menstruation and cellmediated lymphocytotoxicity each play a significant role in the …