Vascular endothelial growth factor mediates the testrogen-induced breakdown of tight junctions between and increase in proliferation of microvessel endothelial cells in the baboon endometrium

Endocrinology

Volumn 149, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 6076-6083

  Aberdeen, Graham W ^a   Wiegand, Stanley J ^b   Bonagura Jr , Thomas W ^a   Pepe, Gerald J ^c   Albrecht, Eugene D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^c EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABOON; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIGHT JUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROVESSELS; OVARIECTOMY; PAPIO; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TIGHT JUNCTIONS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 57349199721     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2008-0521     Document Type: Article

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