Laboratory models for studying ectopic pregnancy

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 221-226

  Brown, Jeremy K ^a   Horne, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ciliary beat frequency; contractility; ectopic pregnancy; tubal implantation

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; PROLACTIN; PROTEOME; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 1;

CELL ISOLATION; CILIARY MOTILITY; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; EX VIVO STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; IN VITRO STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; UTERINE TUBE; UTERINE TUBE PREGNANCY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, TUBAL; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 79960843757     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: 1473656X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GCO.0b013e3283481212     Document Type: Review

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