Natural selection of human embryos: Impaired decidualization of endometrium disables embryo-maternal interactions and causes recurrent pregnancy loss

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Salker, Madhuri ^a   Teklenburg, Gijs ^b   Molokhia, Mariam ^c   Lavery, Stuart ^a   Trew, Geoffrey ^a   Aojanepong, Tepchongchit ^a   Mardon, Helen J ^d   Lokugamage, Amali U ^e   Rai, Raj ^a   Landles, Christian ^a   Roelen, Bernard A J ^f   Quenby, Siobhan ^g   Kuijk, Ewart W ^b   Kavelaars, Annemieke ^b   Heijnen, Cobi J ^b   Regan, Lesley ^a   Macklon, Nick S ^b,h   Brosens, Jan J ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE GLAND DERIVED VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; PROLACTIN; GASTROINTESTINAL HORMONE; PROK1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUALIZATION; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EMBRYO; HUMAN TISSUE; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NATURAL SELECTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECURRENT ABORTION; ADULT; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; DECIDUA; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FERTILITY; GENETIC SELECTION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NIDATION; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; STROMA CELL;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; ADULT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DECIDUA; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL HORMONES; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PREGNANCY; PROLACTIN; SELECTION, GENETIC; STROMAL CELLS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR, ENDOCRINE-GLAND-DERIVED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954295316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010287     Document Type: Article

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