The paracrinology of tubal ectopic pregnancy

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 358, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 216-222

  Shaw, Julie L V ^a   Horne, Andrew W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ectopic pregnancy; Paracrinology

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; COMPLEMENT; COTININE; INTERLEUKIN 1; LIGAND; MUCIN 1; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROKINETICIN; PROKINETICIN RECEPTOR 1; PROKINETICIN RECEPTOR 2; RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

CELL INTERACTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; UTERINE TUBE MUCOSA; UTERINE TUBE PREGNANCY;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, TUBAL;

EID: 84861530232     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2011.07.037     Document Type: Review

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