Comparative aspects of implantation

Reproduction

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 195-209

  Bazer, Fuller W ^a   Spencer, Thomas E ^a   Johnson, Greg A ^b   Burghardt, Robert C ^b   Wu, Guoyao ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11 EPIPROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA; INTERFERON; MUCIN 1; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE;

BLASTOCYTE; CELL CONTACT; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; DECIDUALIZATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DOWN REGULATION; FETUS GROWTH; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HATCHING; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BLASTOCYST; BREEDING; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRIMATE; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INTERFERONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PRIMATES; PROGESTERONE; RATS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

EID: 70149095698     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-09-0158     Document Type: Review

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