Studies using the estrogen receptor α knockout uterus demonstrate that implantation but not decidualization-associated signaling is estrogen dependent

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1268-1277

  Hewitt, Sylvia Curtis ^a   Goulding, Eugenia H ^a   Eddy, E M ^a   Korach, Kenneth S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Decidua; Estradiol receptor; Female reproductive tract; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN COX2; STAT3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA10; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUALIZATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESSENTIAL GENE; FEMALE; GENE DISRUPTION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMA CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UTERUS; UTERUS FUNCTION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0036785315     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod67.4.1268     Document Type: Article

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