Uterine and chorioallantoic angiogenesis and changes in the uterine epithelium during gestation in the viviparous lizard, niveoscincus conventryi (Squamata: Scincidae)

Journal of Morphology

Volumn 273, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 8-23

  Ramírez Pinilla, Martha Patricia ^a   Parker, Scott L ^b,c   Murphy, Christopher R ^c   Thompson, Michael B ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD INDUSTRIAL DE SANTANDER   (Colombia)

^b Wall College of Business   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Immunofluorescent confocal microscopy; Placental surfaces; Viviparous lizard

Indexed keywords

HORMONE ANTAGONIST; MIFEPRISTONE; PROGESTERONE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHORION; DRUG EFFECT; EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FETUS MEMBRANE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIZARD; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UTERUS; VASCULARIZATION; VIVIPARITY; YOLK SAC;

ALLANTOIS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHORION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; LIZARDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIFEPRISTONE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; UTERUS; VIVIPARITY, NONMAMMALIAN; YOLK SAC;

NIVEOSCINCUS CONVENTRYI; NIVEOSCINCUS COVENTRYI; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA; ZOOTOCA VIVIPARA;

EID: 83155181608     PISSN: 03622525     EISSN: 10974687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmor.11002     Document Type: Article

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