Polymeric immunoglobulin a receptor in the rodent female reproductive tract: Influence of estradiol in the vagina and differential expression of messenger ribonucleic acid during estrous cycle

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 958-966

  Kaushic, Charu ^a   Frauendorf, Elaine ^a   Wira, Charles R ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; UTERUS; VAGINA EPITHELIUM;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; ESTRADIOL; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECEPTORS, FC; RNA, MESSENGER; UTERUS; VAGINA;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0030730308     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.5.958     Document Type: Article

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