Relative roles of the epithelial and stromal tissue compartment(s) in mediating the actions of relaxin and estrogen on cell proliferation and apoptosis in the mouse lower reproductive tract

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1160, Issue , 2009, Pages 121-129

  Yao, Lijuan ^a   Agoulnik, Alexander I ^c   Cooke, Paul S ^b   Meling, Daryl D ^b   Sherwood, O David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervix; Paracrine; Relaxin receptor; Tissue separation recombination; Vagina

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; PROTEIN LGR7; PROTEIN RXFP 1; RELAXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EPITHELIUM; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RELEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STROMA; TISSUE SEPARATION RECOMBINATION;

MUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 64549156090     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03799.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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