Hormonal and cytokine regulation of early implantation

Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 178-185

  Makrigiannakis, Antonis ^a   Minas, Vassilis ^a   Kalantaridou, Sophia N ^b   Nikas, George ^a   Chrousos, George P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CYTOKINE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 11; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN RECEPTOR; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 1; SOMATOMEDIN C; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VASCULOTROPIN;

BLASTOCYST; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DECIDUALIZATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE FUNCTION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERUS; UTERUS FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CYTOKINES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HORMONES; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-11; LYMPHOKINES; MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVARY; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 33745645200     PISSN: 10432760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tem.2006.05.001     Document Type: Review

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