Mechanisms of implantation

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 102-109

  Makrigiannakis, Antonis ^a   Minas, Vassilis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blastocyst implantation; Cytokines; Neuropeptides; Ovarian hormones

Indexed keywords

COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CYTOKINE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 11; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; PROGESTERONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

CYTOKINE RELEASE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO GROWTH; ENDOMETRIUM; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OVULATION INDUCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RECURRENT ABORTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 33846483018     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60771-7     Document Type: Article

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