Potential role of interleukin-1 at the peri-ovulation stage in a species of placental viviparous reptile, the three-toed skink, Chalcides chalcides (squamata: scincidae)

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Romagnoli, Roberta ^a   Cateni, Chiara ^a   Guarino, Fabio M ^b   Bigliardi, Elisa ^a   Paulesu, Luana Ricci ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MESENCHYME; MYOMETRIUM; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; OVULATION INDUCTION; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REPRODUCTION; REPTILE; YOLK SAC; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EPITHELIUM; LIZARD; MESODERM; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UTERUS; VITELLOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; INTERLEUKIN-1; LIZARDS; MESODERM; OVULATION; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-1; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UTERUS; VITELLOGENESIS;

EID: 4344623335     PISSN: 14777827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-1-60     Document Type: Article

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