Vitamin D3 receptor is expressed in the endometrium of cycling mice throughout the estrous cycle

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2738-2743

  Zarnani, Amir Hassan ^a   Shahbazi, Mehdi ^b   Salek Moghaddam, Alireza ^b   Zareie, Mehri ^c   Tavakoli, Maryam ^b   Ghasemi, Jemileh ^a   Rezania, Simin ^b   Moravej, Ali ^b   Torkabadi, Ebrahim ^a   Rabbani, Hodjattallah ^a,d   Jeddi Tehrani, Mahmood ^a,d  

^a AVICENNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d KS CCK   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLECALCIFEROL RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; CALCITRIOL RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; DENDRITIC CELL; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UTERINE TUBE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROUS CYCLE; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OVARY; RECEPTORS, CALCITRIOL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 77952103678     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.09.045     Document Type: Article

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