Comparative developmental biology of the uterus: Insights into mechanisms and developmental disruption

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 354, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 34-53

  Spencer, Thomas E ^a   Dunlap, Kathrin A ^b   Filant, Justyna ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Endocrine disruptors; Female; Reproductive tract; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3BETA; SCATTER FACTOR; SEX HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; STEROID RECEPTOR;

CONGENITAL DISORDER; CYTOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOMETRIUM; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FOXA2 GENE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GROWTH REGULATION; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORPHOGENESIS; MUELLERIAN DUCT; NEWBORN DISEASE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REVIEW; SHEEP; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; UTERUS DEVELOPMENT; UTERUS DISEASE; UTERUS FUNCTION; WNT GENE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COLOSTRUM; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MORPHOGENESIS; MULLERIAN DUCTS; PREGNANCY; UTERUS;

EID: 84858276009     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2011.09.035     Document Type: Review

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