Endometrial connexin expression in the mare and pig: Evidence for the suppression of cell-cell communication in uterine luminal epithelium

Anatomical Record

Volumn 251, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 277-285

  Day, William E ^a   Bowen, Jeffery A ^a,d   Barhoumi, Rola ^a   Bazer, Fuller W ^b,c   Burghardt, Robert C ^a,c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Connexin; Endometrium; Gap junctions; Horse; Implantation; Pig; Uterus

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; HISTOLOGY; HORSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; SWINE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXINS; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GAP JUNCTIONS; HORSES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PREGNANCY; SWINE;

EID: 0031835796     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199807)251:3<277::AID-AR1>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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