Deregulation of the serum-and glucocorticoid-inducible kinase SGK1 in the endometrium causes reproductive failure

Nature Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1509-1513

  Salker, Madhuri S ^a   Christian, Mark ^a   Steel, Jennifer H ^a   Nautiyal, Jaya ^a   Lavery, Stuart ^a   Trew, Geoffrey ^a   Webster, Zoe ^a   Al Sabbagh, Marwa ^a   Puchchakayala, Goverdhan ^b   Föller, Michael ^b   Landles, Christian ^a   Sharkey, Andrew M ^c   Quenby, Siobhan ^d   Aplin, John D ^e   Regan, Lesley ^a   Lang, Florian ^b   Brosens, Jan J ^a,d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SERUM AND GLUCOCORTICOID REGULATED KINASE 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUALIZATION; ENDOMETRIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; ENZYME REGULATION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STROMA CELL; UTERUS FLUID;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; STROMAL CELLS;

MUS;

EID: 81255136234     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.2498     Document Type: Article

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