The expression of vascular endothelial growth factor isoforms in cultured human endometrial stromal cells and its regulation by 17β- oestradiol

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 603-607

  Huang, Jaou Chen ^a   Liu, Dan Yang ^a   Dawood, M Yusoff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Endometrium; Oestradiol; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; ANTIESTROGEN; ESTRADIOL; FULVESTRANT; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STROMA CELL;

CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LYMPHOKINES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; STROMAL CELLS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0031776375     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/4.6.603     Document Type: Article

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