Decidual activin: Its role in the apoptotic process and its regulation by prolactin

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1687-1694

  Tessier, Christian ^a,c   Prigent Tessier, Anne ^a,c   Bao, Lei ^a   Telleria, Carlos M ^a,d   Ferguson Gottschall, Susan ^a   Gibori, Gil B ^a   Gu, Yan ^a,e   Bowen Shauver, Jennifer M ^a   Horseman, Nelson D ^b   Gibori, Geula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^e CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Activin; Apoptosis; Decidua; Prolactin

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; ACTIVIN A; CASPASE 3; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROLACTIN; PROLACTIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; DECIDUALIZATION; DNA DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; UTERUS;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; DECIDUA; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PLACENTAL LACTOGEN; PROLACTIN; RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TROPHOBLASTS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037407773     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.011684     Document Type: Article

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