Quantitative cellular and molecular analysis of the effect of progesterone withdrawal in a murine model of decidualization

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 871-883

  Cheng, Ching Wen ^a,b   Bielby, Holli ^a,b   Licence, Di ^a,b   Smith, Stephen K ^b,c   Print, Cristin G ^a,d   Charnock Jones, D Stephen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Female reproductive tract; Growth hormone; Immunology; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUALIZATION; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREGULATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MACROPHAGE; MENSTRUATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TISSUE DEGENERATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; ANIMALS; CHEMOKINES; DECIDUA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGANDS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROGESTERONE; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 34247536306     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.057950     Document Type: Article

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