Conditional deletion of MSX homeobox genes in the uterus inhibits blastocyst implantation by altering uterine receptivity

Developmental Cell

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1014-1025

  Daikoku, Takiko ^a   Cha, Jeeyeon ^a   Sun, Xiaofei ^a   Tranguch, Susanne ^a   Xie, Huirong ^a   Fujita, Tomoko ^a   Hirota, Yasushi ^a   Lydon, John ^b   DeMayo, Francesco ^b   Maxson, Robert ^c   Dey, Sudhansu K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; ESTROGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MSX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MSX2; UVOMORULIN; WNT5A PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL INTERACTION; CELL INVASION; CELL POLARITY; DELAYED IMPLANTATION; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; INFERTILITY; MESENCHYME CELL; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STROMA; SUBFERTILITY; TROPHOBLAST; UPREGULATION; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CELL POLARITY; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MSX1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; UTERUS; WNT PROTEINS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 83555162473     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2011.09.010     Document Type: Article

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