Proto-oncogenes c-jun and c-fos are down-regulated in human endometrium during pregnancy: Relationship to oestrogen receptor status

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 979-984

  Salmi, Anna ^a,b   Ämmälä, Martti ^a   Rutanen, Eeva Marja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

c fos; c jun; Decidua; Oestrogen receptor

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DECIDUA; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEAL PHASE; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; ONCOGENE; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DECIDUA; DOWN-REGULATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GENES, FOS; GENES, JUN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEAL PHASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0030323291     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/2.12.979     Document Type: Article

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