Decidual spiral artery remodeling during early post-implantation period in mice: Investigation of associations with decidual uNK cells and invasive trophoblast

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 417, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 847-852

  Charalambous, Fotini ^a   Elia, Artemis ^a   Georgiades, Pantelis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Decidua basalis; Mouse pregnancy; Placenta; Spiral artery remodeling; Trophoblast; UNK cells

Indexed keywords

LECTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SIZE; DECIDUA; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL ARTERY REMODELLING; TROPHOBLAST; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; DECIDUA; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MICE; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTS; UTERINE ARTERY;

DOLICHOS BIFLORUS; MUS;

EID: 84855834209     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.12.057     Document Type: Article

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