The association between smoking and ectopic pregnancy: why nicotine is BAD for your fallopian tube.

The association between smoking and ectopic pregnancy: why nicotine is BAD for your fallopian tube.

Epidemiological studies have shown that cigarette smoking is a major risk factor for tubal ectopic pregnancy but the reason for this remains unclear. Here, we set out to determine the effect of smoking on Fallopian tube gene expression. An oviductal epithelial cell line (OE-E6/E7) and explants of hu...

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Main Authors: Andrew W Horne, Jeremy K Brown, Junko Nio-Kobayashi, Hazirah B Z Abidin, Zety E H A Adin, Lyndsey Boswell, Stewart Burgess, Kai-Fai Lee, W Colin Duncan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3930728?pdf=render

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