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...
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 |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3930728?pdf=render |
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