Uterine artery remodeling in pseudopregnancy is comparable to that in early pregnancy

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1289-1293

  Van Der Heijden, Olivier W H ^a,b   Essers, Yvonne P G ^a   Spaanderman, Marc E A ^a   De Mey, Jo G R ^a,b   Van Eys, Guillaume J J M ^a,b   Peeters, Louis L H ^a,c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arterial remodeling; Conceptus; Mice; Pregnancy; Pseudopregnancy; Uterine artery; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PROTEIN MKI67; SEX HORMONE; SMOOTHELIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEMODYNAMICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ARTERIES; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PREGNANCY; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 28144442140     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.105.044438     Document Type: Article

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