Maturitas
Volume 60, Issue 1 , Pages 31-41 , 20 May 2008

Ezrin is a key element in the human vagina

  • A. Fadiel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York University, 550 First Avenue, TH528, New York, NY 10016, United States
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  • H.H. Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York University, 550 First Avenue, TH528, New York, NY 10016, United States
    • Present address: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University, Bucheon 420-767, Republic of Korea.
    • ,
  • N. Demir

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University School of Medicine, United States
    • Department of Histology and Embryology, Akdeniz University School of Medicine, 07070 Antalya, Turkey
    • ,
  • S. Richman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University School of Medicine, United States
    • ,
  • A. Iwasaki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Immuno-biology, Yale University School of Medicine, United States
    • ,
  • K. Connell

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York University, 550 First Avenue, TH528, New York, NY 10016, United States
    • ,
  • F. Naftolin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York University, 550 First Avenue, TH528, New York, NY 10016, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.

Received 17 December 2007 ,Revised 14 March 2008 ,Accepted 17 March 2008.

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PII: S0378-5122(08)00103-5

doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2008.03.007

Maturitas
Volume 60, Issue 1 , Pages 31-41 , 20 May 2008

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