Flow cytometric detection and binding studies of human endometrial stromal cell epidermal growth factor receptor in monolayer culture: Influence of progesterone

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 577-583

  Singer, G A M ^a   Strowitzki, T ^a   Rettig, I ^a   Kimmig, R ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

EGF; EGF receptor; Endometrium; Stromal cell culture

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; IODINE 125; PROGESTERONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE; MONOLAYER CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; STROMA CELL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOMETRIUM; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; STROMAL CELLS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0031776948     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/4.6.577     Document Type: Article

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