Increased messenger RNA expression of vascular endothelial growth factor and its receptors in the implantation site of the human oviduct with ectopic gestation

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 686-690

  Lam, Po Mui ^a   Briton Jones, Christine ^b   Cheung, Che Kwok ^b   Leung, See Wai ^a   Cheung, Lai Ping ^a   Haines, Christopher ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Ectopic pregnancy; mRNA; oviduct; RT PCR; VEGF

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; NIDATION; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALPINGECTOMY; UTERINE TUBE PREGNANCY;

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ESTRADIOL; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 4544222421     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2003.12.052     Document Type: Article

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