Epithelial human chorionic gonadotropin is expressed and produced in human secretory endometrium during the normal menstrual cycle

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1053-1065

  Zimmermann, Gerolf ^a   Ackermann, Wilfried ^a   Alexander, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human chorionic gonadotropin; Human endometrium; Implantation; Mechanisms of hormone action; Menstrual cycle

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; DIMER; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; RNA;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; CELL SECRETION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ELECTROPHORESIS; ENDOMETRIUM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMPLANTATION; LEUKOCYTE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA EXTRACTION; SUPERNATANT; TISSUE HOMOGENATE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; DIMERIZATION; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOPROTEIN HORMONES, ALPHA SUBUNIT; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 65949105258     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.069575     Document Type: Article

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