Administration of thymocytes derived from nonpregnant mice induces an endometrial receptive stage and leukaemia inhibitory factor expression in the uterus

Human Reproduction

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2888-2894

  Fujita, Kazuyuki ^a   Nakayama, Takahiro ^a   Takabatake, Keiko ^a   Higuchi, Toshihiro ^a   Fujita, Jun ^a   Maeda, Michiyuki ^a   Fujiwara, Hiroshi ^a   Mori, Takahide ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Daigo Watanabe Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endometrium; Implantation; Leukaemia inhibitory factor; Lymphocyte; Thymocyte

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; GROWTH INHIBITOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIF PROTEIN, MOUSE; LYMPHOKINE; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN CELL; THYMOCYTE; ANIMAL; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSPLANTATION; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH INHIBITORS; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PREGNANCY; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTES; UTERUS;

EID: 0032176381     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/13.10.2888     Document Type: Article

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