Relaxin regulates endometrial structure and function in the rhesus monkey

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1041, Issue , 2005, Pages 110-117

  Goldsmith, Laura T ^a   Weiss, Gerson ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometrium; Pregnancy; Relaxin; Rhesus monkey; Steroid hormone receptor; Uterus

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; ISOPROTEIN; PROGESTERONE; RELAXIN; STEROID; STEROID RECEPTOR; STROMELYSIN; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; RHESUS MONKEY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS FUNCTION; UTERUS WEIGHT;

MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 23644459249     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1282.015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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