Cytokines, chemokines and growth factors in endometrium related to implantation

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 613-630

  Dimitriadis, Evdokia ^a   White, C A ^a   Jones, R L ^a   Salamonsen, L A ^a  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chemokines; Cytokines; Endometrium; Implantation; Placentation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; CHEMOKINE; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; CYTOKINE; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 130; GROWTH FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 11; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITION FACTOR; STAT PROTEIN; SUPPRESSOR OF CYTOKINE SIGNALING; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSPORT; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITION; NIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TROPHOBLAST;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; CHEMOKINES; COLONY-STIMULATING FACTORS; CYTOKINES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-11; INTERLEUKIN-15; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; PLACENTATION; PREGNANCY; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 27744485639     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: 14602369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmi023     Document Type: Review

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