Recent molecular approaches to elucidate the mechanism of embryo implantation: Trophinin, bystin, and tastin as molecules involved in the initial attachment of blastocysts to the uterus in humans

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 265-271

  Aoki, R ^a   Fukuda, M N ^a  

^a BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bystin; Tastin; Trophinin

Indexed keywords

BYSTIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TASTIN; TROPHININ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADHESION; BLASTOCYST; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; NIDATION; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELL ADHESION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PREGNANCY; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; UTERUS;

EID: 0034460195     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-12564     Document Type: Review

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