Assessment of VEGF-receptor system expression in the porcine endometrial stromal cells in response to insulin-like growth factor-I, relaxin, oxytocin and prostaglandin E2

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 291, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 33-41

  Kaczmarek, Monika M ^a   Blitek, Agnieszka ^a   Kaminska, Katarzyna ^a   Bodek, Gabriel ^a   Zygmunt, Marek ^b   Schams, Dieter ^c   Ziecik, Adam J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL REPRODUCTION AND FOOD RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Early pregnancy; Endometrium; VEGF receptor system

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; RELAXIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STROMA CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DINOPROSTONE; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; OXYTOCIN; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; RELAXIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMAL CELLS; SWINE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 48349091604     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2008.04.020     Document Type: Article

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