Induction of Overt menstruation in intact mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Rudolph, Marion ^a   Döcke, Wolf Dietrich ^a   Müller, Andrea ^a   Menning, Astrid ^b   Röse, Lars ^b   Zollner, Thomas Matthias ^a   Gashaw, Isabella ^a  

^a Target Discovery   (Germany)

^b Bayer HealthCare   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE; MENSTRUATION INDUCING AGENT; MESSENGER RNA; MIFEPRISTONE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUALIZATION; ENDOMETRIUM; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; FLUSHING; INFLAMMATION; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE REPAIR; UTERUS HORN; VAGINA BLEEDING; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; DECIDUA; DRUG EFFECT; ESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

EUTHERIA; MUS; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; DECIDUA; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROUS CYCLE; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MENSTRUATION-INDUCING AGENTS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MIFEPRISTONE; PROGESTERONE; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84857873712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032922     Document Type: Article

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