Mechanisms of reduced fertility in Hoxa-10 mutant mice: Uterine homeosis and loss of maternal Hoxa-10 expression

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2687-2696

  Benson, Gail V ^a   Lim, Hyunjung ^b   Paria, B C ^b   Satokata, Ichiro ^a,c   Dey, Sudhansu K ^b   Maas, Richard L ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fertility; Homeobox; Implantation; Mouse; Pattern formation; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; DECIDUALIZATION; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENITAL SYSTEM; HOMEOBOX; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; SUBFERTILITY; UTERUS; VAS DEFERENS;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO LOSS; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFERTILITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MORPHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029793280     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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