Attenuated sex steroid receptor expression in Fallopian tube of women with ectopic pregnancy

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 5146-5154

  Horne, Andrew W ^a   King, Anne E ^a   Shaw, Edward ^a   McDonald, Sarah E ^a   Williams, Alistair R W ^b   Saunders, Philippa T ^c   Critchley, Hilary O D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC Reproductive Biology Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR A; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR B; SEX HORMONE; STEROID RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM; EXPLANT; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; STROMA; TISSUE CULTURE; UTERINE TUBE;

EID: 73249118725     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2009-1476     Document Type: Article

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