Decidualization and implantation: Embryo-uterine bioinformatics at work

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 123-125

  Kierszenbaum, Abraham L ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR DERIVATIVE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; DECIDUALIZATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; DECIDUA; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENDOMETRIUM; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FEMALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASES;

ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 0035033507     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.1014     Document Type: Review

References (7)

1. Embryo implantation
2. Heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor gene is induced in the mouse uterus temporally by the blastocyst solely at the site of its apposition: A possible ligand for interaction with blastocyst EGF-receptor in implantation
3. A heparin-binding growth factor secreted by macrophage-like cells that is related to epidermal growth factor
4. Desmosomes are reduced in the mouse uterine luminal epithelium during the preimplantation period of pregnancy: A mechanism for facilitation of implantation
5. Gelatinases A and B and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases 1, 2, and 3 during in vivo and in vitro decidualization of rat endometrial stromal cells
6. Epidermal growth factor and basic fibroblast growth factor increase the production of matrix metalloproteinases during in vitro decidualization of rat endometrial stromal cells
7. Cellular and molecular responses of the uterus to embryo implantation can be elicited by locally applied growth factors