Ultrastructural studies of glycan changes in the apical surface of the uterine epithelium during pre-ovulatory and pre-implantation stages in the marmoset monkey

Anatomical Record

Volumn 255, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 241-251

  Niklaus, Andrea Louise ^b   Murphy, Christopher Raymond ^b   Lopata, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Lectin cytochemistry; Marmoset monkey; Quantitative morphology; Uterine epithelium

Indexed keywords

AVIDIN; CLOPROSTENOL; FERRITIN; GLYCAN; LECTIN; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEAN; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CELL INTERACTION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GLYCOCALYX; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MARMOSET; MORPHOMETRICS; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; OVULATION; PEA; POKEWEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHEAT GERM;

ANIMALS; CALLITHRIX; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LECTINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OVULATION; POLYSACCHARIDES; PREGNANCY; TIME FACTORS; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; CANAVALIA ENSIFORMIS; GLYCINE MAX; LOTUS TETRAGONOLOBUS; MARMOSETS; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); PHYTOLACCA AMERICANA; PHYTOLACCACEAE; PISUM SATIVUM; PRIMATES; TETRAGONOLOBUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM VULGARIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033168045     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(19990701)255:3<241::AID-AR1>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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