Growth-differentiation factor-8 (GDF-8) in the uterus: Its identification and functional significance in the golden hamster

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Wong, Chun Lung ^a   Huang, Ya Yu ^a   Ho, Wing Kei ^a   Poon, Hong Kit ^a   Cheung, Pui Lai ^b   O, Wai Sum ^b   Chow, Pak Ham ^a  

^a Prince of Wales Hospital   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MYOSTATIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; HAMSTER; HATCHING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TROPHOBLAST; UTERUS; ANIMAL; BODY FLUID; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

MESOCRICETUS AURATUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY FLUIDS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; MYOMETRIUM; MYOSTATIN; PREGNANCY; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; UTERUS;

EID: 71949125322     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-7-134     Document Type: Article

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