Medical Hypotheses
Volume 55, Issue 6 , Pages 485-490, December 2000

Lessons from pregnancy and parturition: uterine leiomyomas result from discordant differentiation and dedifferentiation responses in smooth muscle cells

  • K. Cesen-Cummings

      Affiliations

    • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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  • C.L. Walker

      Affiliations

    • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
    • Science Park Research Division, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, Texas, USA
    • ,
  • B.J. Davis

      Affiliations

    • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA

Received 2 November 1999; accepted 16 February 2000.

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PII: S0306-9877(00)91098-3

doi:10.1054/mehy.2000.1098

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 55, Issue 6 , Pages 485-490, December 2000

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