The hamster as a model for embryo implantation: Insights into a multifaceted process

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 194-203

  Reese, Jeff ^a   Wang, Hehai ^a   Ding, Tianbing ^a   Paria, B C ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryo; Hamster; Implantation; Mouse; Uterus

Indexed keywords

AMPHIREGULIN; ANGIOPOIETIN; BETACELLULIN; CYTOKINE; EPIREGULIN; ESTROGEN; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; HEPARIN BINDING EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; HISTAMINE; ICOSANOID; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 6; KININ; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR RECEPTOR; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; NITRIC OXIDE; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; SUPPRESSOR OF CYTOKINE SIGNALING 3; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA10; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UVOMORULIN; VASCULOTROPIN; VASOACTIVE AGENT;

BLASTOCYST; BLASTOCYTE; BLASTOMERE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DECIDUALIZATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOMETRIUM; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HAMSTER; IMPLANTATION; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PINOPODE; POLARIZATION; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; REVIEW; SYRIAN HAMSTER; UTERODOME; UTERUS; ZONA PELLUCIDA; ZONULA OCCLUDENS 1;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE;

EID: 39249084627     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2007.11.001     Document Type: Review

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