Progesterone maintains amniotic tight junctions during midpregnancy in mice

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 337, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 36-42

  Kobayashi, Ken ^a,b   Miwa, Hideki ^a,c   Yasui, Masato ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amniotic membrane; Claudin; Progesterone; Tight junctions

Indexed keywords

CLAUDIN 3; CLAUDIN 4; MIFEPRISTONE; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

AMNION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECEPTOR OCCUPANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TIGHT JUNCTION;

AMNION; ANIMALS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MIFEPRISTONE; PERMEABILITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; TIGHT JUNCTIONS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 79953317943     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2011.01.019     Document Type: Article

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