Isolation, characterization, and function of EBAF/LEFTY B: Role in infertility

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1221, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 98-102

  Tabibzadeh, Siamak ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EBAF; Endometrium; Human; Infertility; Lefty

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; LEFT RIGHT DETERMINATION FACTOR; LEFT RIGHT DETERMINATION FACTOR B; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROLACTIN; PROTEIN EBAF; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 1; COLLAGEN DEGRADATION; DECIDUA; DECIDUALIZATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 79952672068     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05944.x     Document Type: Article

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