Production and localization of activins and activin type IIA and IIB receptors by the human endosalpinx

Reproduction

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 249-255

  Refaat, B A ^b   Bahathiq, A O ^b   Sockanathan, S ^b   Stewart, R L ^a   Wells, M ^a   Ledger, W L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR 2; INHIBIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UTERINE TUBE; UTERINE TUBE MUCOSA;

FALLOPIA;

EID: 4444326720     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00156     Document Type: Article

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