De novo synthesis of estrogen in pregnant uterus is critical for stromal decidualization and angiogenesis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 30, 2009, Pages 12542-12547

  Das, Amrita ^a   Mantena, Srinivasa Raju ^a   Kannan, Athilakshmi ^a   Evans, Dean B ^b   Bagchi, Milan K ^a,c   Bagchi, Indrani C ^a  

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

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

Aromatase; Endometrium; Implantation

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTROGEN; LETROZOLE; PROGESTERONE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DECIDUALIZATION; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMA CELL; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; DECIDUA; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; OVARIECTOMY; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STROMAL CELLS; UTERUS;

MUS;

EID: 68149149958     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901647106     Document Type: Article

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