Mouse model of human infertility: Transient and local inhibition of endometrial STAT-3 activation results in implantation failure

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2717-2722

  Nakamura, Hitomi ^a   Kimura, Tadashi ^a   Koyama, Shinsuke ^a   Ogita, Kazuhide ^a   Tsutsui, Tateki ^a   Shimoya, Koichiro ^a   Taniguchi, Takeshi ^b   Koyama, Masayasu ^a   Kaneda, Yasufumi ^a   Murata, Yuji ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Taniguchi Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

HVJ E vector; Implantation failure; In vivo gene transfer; Infertility; Molecular therapy; STAT 3

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE; STAT3 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUALIZATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; INFERTILITY; MALE; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; UTERUS CAVITY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO LOSS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; OVARY; PREGNANCY; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646186918     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.04.029     Document Type: Article

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