Mode of cell death in the rat metrial gland during peripartum regression

Anatomical Record

Volumn 252, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 369-377

  Fukazawa, Yugo ^a   Yamamura, Yuichi ^b   Sato, Tomomi ^a   Iguchi, Taisen ^a   Ohta, Yasuhiko ^c  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Involution; Metrial gland; Necrosis; Pregnancy; Rat

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INVOLUTION; METRIAL GLAND; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; APOPTOSIS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; METRIAL GLAND; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NECROSIS; ORGAN SIZE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031768641     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199811)252:3<369::AID-AR4>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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