Endometrial inhibin/activin β-B subunit expression is related to decidualization and is reduced in tubal ectopic pregnancy

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2375-2382

  Horne, Andrew W ^a,c   Van Den Driesche, S ^a   King, A E ^a   Burgess, S ^a   Myers, M ^a   Ludlow, H ^b   Lourenco, P ^a   Ghazal, P ^a   Williams, A R ^a   Critchley, H O D ^a   Duncan, W C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INHIBIN B; MYELOPID; PROLACTIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 1;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUALIZATION; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 45149113802     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2008-0136     Document Type: Article

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