Macrophage-derived LIF and IL1B regulate alpha(1,2)fucosyltransferase 2 (Fut2) expression in mouse uterine epithelial cells during early pregnancy

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 179-188

  Jasper, Melinda J ^a   Care, Alison S ^a   Sullivan, Brad ^a   Ingman, Wendy V ^a   Aplin, John D ^b   Robertson, Sarah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Glycoconjugate; Implantation; Leukocyte; Macrophages; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; FUT1 ENZYME; FUT2 ENZYME; FUT4 ENZYME; LECTIN; MESSENGER RNA; MUCIN 1; MUCIN 4; PROTEIN IL12; PROTEIN IL1B; PROTEIN LIF; PROTEIN LTP; PROTEIN UEA 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; MATING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ENDOTHELIUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; UTERUS;

LOTUS TETRAGONOLOBUS; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; ULEX EUROPAEUS;

EID: 78651519252     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.085399     Document Type: Article

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