Fetal loss in homozygous mutant Norrie disease mice: A new role of Norrin in reproduction

Genesis (United States)

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 253-262

  Luhmann, Ulrich F O ^a,d   Meunier, Dominique ^b   Shi, Wei ^c   Lüttges, Angela ^b   Pfarrer, Christiane ^e   Fundele, Reinald ^c   Berger, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decidualization; Infertility; Ndph knockout mouse; Norrin; Uterus

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; NORRIN; RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; DECIDUALIZATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FETUS WASTAGE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NDP GENE; NDPH GENE; NONHUMAN; NORRIE DISEASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UTERUS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

EID: 23844487802     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gene.20141     Document Type: Article

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