Nuclear retinoid receptor expression in normal human endometrium throughout the menstrual cycle

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 123-129

  Kumarendran, M Kumar ^a   Loughney, Andrew D ^a   Prentice, Andrew ^a,c   Thomas, Eric J ^b   Redfern, Christopher P F ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Human epithelium; Menstrual cycle; Retinoic acid receptors; Retinoid X receptors

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; METABOLISM; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHYSIOLOGY; STROMA CELL;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; RETINOID X RECEPTORS; RNA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROMAL CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030072611     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/2.2.123     Document Type: Article

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