Abortion in mice with excessive erythrocytosis is due to impaired arteriogenesis of the uterine arcade

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1049-1057

  Gassmann, Max ^a   Manini, Annamaria ^a   Stallmach, Thomas ^a   Saam, Bianca ^a   Kuhn, Gisela ^a   Grenacher, Beat ^a   Bogdanova, Anna Y ^a   Vogel, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arteriogenesis; Erythropoietin; Female reproductive tract; Fertility; Intrauterine growth restriction; Intrauterine growth retardation; Polycythemia; Preeclampsia; Pregnancy; Repeated pregnancy loss; Uterine artery

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ABORTION; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTOSIS; EXTRAMEDULLARY HEMATOPOIESIS; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEMATOCRIT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHEAR STRESS; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ANIMALS; ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VISCOSITY; ERYTHROPOIETIN, RECOMBINANT; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; POLYCYTHEMIA; PREGNANCY; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 44349090346     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.107.065532     Document Type: Article

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