Specific and transient up-regulation of proprotein convertase 6 at the site of embryo implantation and identification of a unique transcript in mouse uterus during early pregnancy

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 439-447

  Nie, Gui Ying ^a   Li, Ying ^a   Minoura, Hiroyuki ^b   Findlay, Jock K ^a   Salamonsen, Lois A ^a  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Female reproductive tract; Gene regulation; Implantation; Pregnancy; Uterus

Indexed keywords

HORMONE PRECURSOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; DECIDUALIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL DISPLAY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA ANALYSIS; STROMA CELL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE LEVEL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ESTRUS; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTESTINES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UP-REGULATION; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037307159     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.006676     Document Type: Article

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