Progesterone, but not estrogen, stimulates vessel maturation in the mouse endometrium

Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 5433-5441

  Girling, Jane E ^a   Lederman, Fiona L ^a   Walter, Lisa M ^a   Rogers, Peter A W ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; MIFEPRISTONE; PROGESTERONE; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INHIBITION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANGIOGENESIS INDUCING AGENTS; ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PERICYTES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROGESTERONE;

EID: 35548948113     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2007-0856     Document Type: Article

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