Postnatal deletion of Wnt7a inhibits uterine gland morphogenesis and compromises adult fertility in mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 386-396

  Dunlap, Kathrin A ^a   Filant, Justyna ^a   Hayashi, Kanako ^b   Rucker, Edmund B ^c   Song, Gwonhwa ^d   Deng, Jian Min ^e   Behringer, Richard R ^e   DeMayo, Franco J ^f   Lydon, John ^f   Jeong, Jae Wook ^f   Spencer, Thomas E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^f BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Female reproductive tract; Pregnancy; Transgenic knockout model; Uterus

Indexed keywords

FZD10 PROTEIN; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3BETA; LIF PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA10; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA11; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MSX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MSX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANGL2 PROTEIN; WNT11 PROTEIN; WNT16 PROTEIN; WNT4 PROTEIN; WNT5A PROTEIN; WNT7A PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; ENDOMETRIUM; EXON; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MESENCHYME; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STROMA CELL; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; UTERUS; WNT PROTEINS;

MUS;

EID: 80052262951     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.091769     Document Type: Article

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