Retinoic acid metabolizing enzyme CYP26A1 is implicated in rat embryo implantation

Human Reproduction

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2985-2998

  Xia, Hong Fei ^a,b   Ma, Jing Jing ^a   Sun, Jing ^a   Yang, Ying ^a   Peng, Jing Pian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING   (China)

Author keywords

Cyp26a1; embryo implantation; rat; uterus apoptosis

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450 26A1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DECIDUALIZATION; EMBRYO; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; RAT; STROMA CELL; UTERUS;

RATTUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78649506969     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deq268     Document Type: Article

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