The human endometrium expresses the glycoprotein mucin-1 and shows positive correlation for Thomsen-Friedenreich epitope expression and galectin-1 binding

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 871-881

  Jeschke, Udo ^a   Walzel, Hermann ^b   Mylonas, Ioannis ^a   Papadopoulos, Panos ^a   Shabani, Naim ^a   Kuhn, Christina ^a   Schulze, Sandra ^a   Friese, Klaus ^a   Karsten, Uwe ^c   Anz, David ^a   Kupka, Markus S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c GLYCOTOPE GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endometrium; Galectin 1; Glycosylation; Oocyte; Thomsen Friedenreich epitope

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; GALECTIN 1; GLYCOPROTEIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; MUCIN 1; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; THOMSEN FRIEDENREICH EPITOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; THOMSEN FRIEDENREICH ANTIGEN; THOMSEN-FRIEDENREICH ANTIGEN; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOTINYLATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GLYCOSYLATION; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NIDATION; OOCYTE; PLACENTA; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; UTERUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FERTILIZATION; METABOLISM; TUMOR CELL LINE; ZYGOTE;

ANTIGENS, TUMOR-ASSOCIATED, CARBOHYDRATE; BIOTINYLATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITOPES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GALECTIN 1; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MUCIN-1; OOCYTES; PREMENOPAUSE; PROTEIN BINDING; ZYGOTE;

EID: 70249147281     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1369/jhc.2009.952085     Document Type: Article

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