Growth Factors and Cytokines in Endometrium, Embryonic Development, and Maternal: Embryonic Interactions

Seminars in Reproductive Endocrinology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 231-245

  Tazuke, Salli I ^a   Giudice, Linda C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GROWTH PROMOTOR;

ANIMAL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0030202678     PISSN: 07348630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1016333     Document Type: Article

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