Uterocalin: A mouse acute phase protein expressed in the uterus around birth

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 507-514

  Liu, Quansheng ^a,b   Ryon, Joel ^a   Nilsen Hamilton, Marit ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

acute phase response; parturition; SIP24 24p3; uterus

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CELL STIMULATION; COVALENT BOND; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH REGULATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; TISSUE INJURY;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; LIVER; MICE; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030892476     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199704)46:4<507::AID-MRD9>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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