Infertility in female mice lacking the receptor for interleukin 11 is due to a defective uterine response to implantation

Nature Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 303-308

  Robb, Lorraine ^a   Li, Ruili ^a   Hartley, Lynne ^a   Nandurkar, Marshal H ^a   Koentgen, Frank ^a   Glenn Begley, C ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 11;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; DECIDUA; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INTERLEUKIN-11; INTERLEUKIN-11 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-11; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031916723     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0398-303     Document Type: Article

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