Osteopontin expression in uterine stroma indicates a decidualization-like differentiation during ovine pregnancy

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1951-1958

  Johnson, Greg A ^a,b   Burghardt, Robert C ^a,b   Joyce, Margaret M ^a,b   Spencer, Thomas E ^a,c   Bazer, Fuller W ^a,c   Pfarrer, Christiane ^d   Gray, C Allison ^a,c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decidua; Implantation; Pregnancy; Trophoblast; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; DESMIN; INTEGRIN; MESSENGER RNA; OSTEOPONTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUALIZATION; ECTODERM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHEEP; STROMA CELL; UTERUS SARCOMA;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DECIDUA; DESMIN; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETIC MARKERS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KERATINS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; OSTEOPONTIN; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; SIALOGLYCOPROTEINS; STROMAL CELLS; SWINE; UTERUS; VIMENTIN;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 0037903200     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.012948     Document Type: Article

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