Ovarian hormones control the changing expression of claudins and occludin in rat uterine epithelial cells during early pregnancy

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 42-52

  Nicholson, Megan D O ^a   Lindsay, Laura A ^a   Murphy, Christopher R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Claudins; Implantation; Occludin; Oestrogen; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

CLAUDIN; CLAUDIN 4; OCCLUDIN; PROGESTERONE; SODIUM ION; WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MALE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARIECTOMY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS; TIGHT JUNCTION; TRANSCYTOSIS; WATER PERMEABILITY;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLAUDINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UTERUS;

RATTUS;

EID: 73749087582     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: 16180372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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