Primate preimplantation embryo is a target for relaxin during early pregnancy

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 203-207

  Vandevoort, Catherine A ^a,e   Mtango, Namdori R ^b   Latham, Keith E ^b,c   Stewart, Dennis R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

blastocyst; Gene expression; granulosa cells; rhesus macaque

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RELAXIN; RELAXIN RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED OVARIAN HYPERSTIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYBRIDIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNER CELL MASS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RHESUS MONKEY; TROPHECTODERM CELL;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CRICETINAE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; RELAXIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79959908102     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.05.016     Document Type: Article

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