Functional analysis of murine uterine natural killer cells genetically devoid of oestrogen receptors

Placenta

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 403-411

  Borzychowski, A M ^a   Chantakru, S ^a   Minhas, K ^a   Paffaro Jr , V A ^a,b   Yamada, A T ^b   He, H ^a   Korach, K S ^c   Croy, B A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; LECTIN; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELL COUNT; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HYBRIDOMA; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MATING; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PURIFICATION; RECIPIENT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; STEM CELL; UTERUS;

EID: 0038408365     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/plac.2002.0924     Document Type: Article

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