N-Acylethanolamines in human reproductive fluids

Chemistry and Physics of Lipids

Volumn 121, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 211-227

  Schuel, Herbert ^a   Burkman, Lani J ^a   Lippes, Jack ^a   Crickard, Kent ^a   Forester, Ellyn ^b   Piomelli, Daniele ^c   Giuffrida, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Tree of Life Midwifery   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amniotic fluid; Eicosanoids; Endocannabinoids; Fertilization; Follicular fluid; Milk; Ovarian cysts; Oviductal fluid; Reproduction; Seminal plasma

Indexed keywords

4 (1,1 DIMETHYLHEPTYL) 1',2',3',4',5',6' HEXAHYDRO 2,3' DIHYDROXY 6' (3 HYDROXYPROPYL)BIPHENYL; 5 (4 CHLORO 3 METHYLPHENYL) 1 (4 METHYLBENZYL) N (1,3,3 TRIMETHYLBICYCLO[2.2.1]HEPTAN 2 YL) 3 PYRAZOLECARBOXAMIDE; AMIDE; ANANDAMIDE; CANNABINOID; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR; CANNABIS; ETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; METHANANDAMIDE; N OLEOYLETHANOLAMINE; PALMIDROL; RIMONABANT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMNION FLUID; BEHAVIOR; BREAST CARCINOMA; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG MECHANISM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LACTATION; LIQUID; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MILK; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OVARY CANCER; OVARY CYCLE; OVARY CYST; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; OVARY FUNCTION; OVIDUCT; OVULATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; REPRODUCTION; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMALS; ENDOCANNABINOIDS; ETHANOLAMINES; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR FLUID; HUMANS; MALE; MILK, HUMAN; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; RECEPTORS, CANNABINOID; RECEPTORS, DRUG; SEMEN;

CANNABIS SATIVA; ECHINOIDEA; MAMMALIA; PISUM SATIVUM; RODENTIA;

EID: 0037207085     PISSN: 00093084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-3084(02)00158-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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