Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) acts independently of the beta common subunit of the GM-CSF receptor to prevent inner cell mass apoptosis in human embryos

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1817-1823

  Sjöblom, Cecilia ^a,c   Wikland, Matts ^a   Robertson, Sarah A ^b  

^a Fertilitetscentrum AB   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c Cell Therapeutics Scandinavia AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cytokines; Embryo; Growth factors; In vitro fertilization

Indexed keywords

GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR RECEPTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; ANTIBODY; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR, ARG(21); GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR, ARG(21)-; MESSENGER RNA; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ALPHA CHAIN; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; BLASTULA; CELL COUNT; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO GROWTH; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INNER CELL MASS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; BLASTOCYST; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; NICK END LABELING; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANTIBODIES; APOPTOSIS; BLASTOCYST; BLASTULA; CULTURE MEDIA; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTORS, RECOMBINANT; GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0036892884     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.101.001503     Document Type: Article

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