Expression of mRNA for vascular endothelial growth factor transmembraneous receptors Flt1 and KDR, and the soluble receptor sflt in cycling human endometrium

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 452-458

  Krüssel, Jan Steffen ^a,b   Casañ, Eva Maria ^b   Raga, Francisco ^b   Hirchenhain, Jens ^a   Wen, Yan ^b   Huang, Hong Yuan ^b   Bielfeld, Peter ^a   Polan, Mary Lake ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Cytokines; Gene expression; Growth factors; Implantation

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; NIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADULT; BIOPSY; CELL MEMBRANE; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; SOLUBILITY; STROMAL CELLS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1;

EID: 0032910105     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/5.5.452     Document Type: Article

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