Expression of the inducible nitric oxide synthase gene in mouse uterine leukocytes and potential relationships with uterine function during pregnancy

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 827-836

  Hunt, Joan S ^a   Miller, Lance ^a   Vassmer, Dianne ^a   Croy, B Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; LEUKOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENZYME INDUCTION; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKOCYTES; METRIAL GLAND; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0030885607     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.4.827     Document Type: Article

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