Changes in vascular permeability and deciduoma formation during the peri-implantation period of the rat in response to exogenous gonadotropins

Anatomical Record

Volumn 247, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 20-24

  Kramer, Bevebley ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Decidualisation; Exogenous gonadotropins; Hyperstimulation; Rat; Vascular permeability

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; DECIDUALIZATION; ENDOMETRIUM; HORMONAL REGULATION; MORPHOLOGY; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; DECIDUA; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030767195     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199701)247:1<20::AID-AR3>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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