The Effect of Combined Oral Contraceptive Pills on Beclin-1 and LC3B Transcript Levels in Ovarian Endometrioma

Table 5

Comparison of Beclin-1 and LC3 transcript levels between endometrium and endometriotic cyst for the endometriosis group.

	No treatment ()			COC ()
	EM	Cyst	value	EM	Cyst
mRNA level of Beclin-			0.080			<0.000
mRNA level of			0.113			0.021

EM: endometrium; mRNA: messenger ribonucleic acid; COC: combined oral contraceptive.