Expression of platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor and its mRNA in uterine endometrium during the menstrual cycle

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 509-513

  Fujimoto, Jiro ^a   Ichigo, Satoshi ^a   Sakaguchi, Hideki ^a   Hirose, Reiko ^a   Tamaya, Teruhiko ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Neovascularization; PD ECGF; Uterine endometrium

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PLATELET DERIVED ENDOTHELIAL CELL GROWTH FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ENDOMETRIUM; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; OVULATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGESTERONE; RNA, MESSENGER; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031777937     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/4.5.509     Document Type: Article

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