Ultrastructural dynamics of the human endometrium from 14 to 22 weeks of gestation

Archives of Histology and Cytology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-28

  Barberini, Fabrizio ^a   Makabe, Sayoko ^b   Franchitto, Gianfranco ^a   Correr, Silvia ^a   Relucenti, Michela ^a   Heyn, Rosemarie ^a   Familiari, Giuseppe ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYTE; CAPILLARY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; DYNAMICS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FETUS; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMPLANTATION; LAMINA PROPRIA; MESENCHYME CELL; MICROSCOPY; MICROVILLUS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PRIMORDIUM; STRATIFICATION; STROMA; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CAPILLARIES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CILIA; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MESODERM; MICROVILLI; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND;

EID: 34250320552     PISSN: 09149465     EISSN: 13491717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1679/aohc.70.21     Document Type: Article

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