Intrauterine signaling and embryonic implantation

NeuroSignals

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 111-121

  Barkai, Uriel ^a   Kraicer, Perry F ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Embryo implantation; Histamine; Membrane proteins; Platelet activating factor; Prostaglandins

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR;

DECIDUA; DECIDUALIZATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM; HUMAN; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; DECIDUA; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HISTAMINE; PLATELET ACTIVATING FACTOR; PREGNANCY; PROSTAGLANDINS; TROPHOBLASTS; UTERUS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030017838     PISSN: 1424862X     EISSN: 14248638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000109180     Document Type: Article

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