Localization of angiogenic growth factors and their receptors in the human endometrium throughout the menstrual cycle and in recurrent miscarriage

Human Reproduction

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 183-195

  Lash, Gendie E ^a   Innes, Barbara A ^a   Drury, Josephine A ^b   Robson, Stephen C ^a   Quenby, Siobhan ^c   Bulmer, Judith N ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

angiogenic growth factors; endometrium; recurrent miscarriage; vascular development

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN 1; ANGIOPOIETIN 2; ANGIOPOIETIN RECEPTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BB; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN C; VASCULOTROPIN D; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 3;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENT ABORTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STROMA CELL; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 83755205822     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/der376     Document Type: Article

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