Wnt genes in the mouse uterus: Potential regulation of implantation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 989-1000

  Hayashi, Kanako ^a   Erikson, David W ^b   Tilford, Sarah A ^b   Bany, Brent M ^a   Maclean II, James A ^a   Rucker III, Edmund B ^c   Johnson, Greg A ^b   Spencer, Thomas E ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Implantation; Mouse; Pregnancy; Uterus; WNT

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; STEROID HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; WNT11 PROTEIN; WNT16 PROTEIN; WNT4 PROTEIN; WNT5A PROTEIN; WNT7A PROTEIN; WNT7B PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; DECIDUA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; IMPLANTATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STROMA; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FRIZZLED RECEPTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; MICE; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERUS; WNT PROTEINS;

MUS;

EID: 65949092194     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.075416     Document Type: Article

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