Vectorial secretion of vascular endothelial growth factor by polarized human endometrial epithelial cells

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 909-915

  Hornung, Daniela ^a   Lebovic, Danny I ^a   Shifren, Jan L ^a   Vigne, Jean Louis ^a   Taylor, Robert N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Implantation; Mitogen; Pregnancy; Uterus

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL POLARITY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERTILITY; NIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION;

ADULT; CELL POLARITY; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOKINES; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0032079896     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(98)00044-2     Document Type: Article

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