Silencing lamin A/C in human endometrial stromal cells: A model to investigate endometrial gene function and regulation

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 705-711

  Tulac, Suzana ^a   Dosiou, Chrysoula ^a   Suchanek, Ernest ^b   Giudice, Linda C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Emerin; Endometrial stromal cells; Lamin A C; RNAi

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; EMERIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; LAMIN A; LAMIN C; MESSENGER RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR LAMINA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SEQUENCE; STROMA CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; LAMIN TYPE A; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; STROMAL CELLS; THYMOPOIETINS;

EID: 5044250980     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gah105     Document Type: Article

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