Expression and Regulation of the Prokineticins (Endocrine Gland-Derived Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Bv8) and Their Receptors in the Human Endometrium across the Menstrual Cycle

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2463-2469

  Battersby, S ^a   Critchley, H O D ^a   Morgan, K ^a   Millar, R P ^a   Jabbour, H N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE GLAND DERIVED VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; ENDOCRINE GLAND DERIVED VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR 2; ENDOCRINE GLAND DERIVED VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR 2 RECEPTOR; ENDOCRINE GLAND DERIVED VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MYOMETRIUM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GASTROINTESTINAL HORMONES; HUMANS; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MYOMETRIUM; NEUROPEPTIDES; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR, ENDOCRINE-GLAND-DERIVED;

EID: 2442625279     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2003-032012     Document Type: Article

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