Expression of nerve growth factor and its receptors TrkA and p75 in the uterus of wild female ground squirrel (Citellus dauricus Brandt)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-69

  Li, Ben ^a   Sheng, Xia ^a   Song, Moshi ^a,b   Zhang, Haolin ^a   Weng, Jiaju ^c   Zhang, Mengyuan ^a   Hu, Xiao ^a,d   Zhou, Jiao ^a   Xu, Meiyu ^a   Weng, Qiang ^a,e   Watanabe, Gen ^e   Taya, Kazuyoshi ^e  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

NGF; P75; TrkA; Uterus; Wild ground squirrel

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR P75; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE A;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; GLANDULAR CELL; LUMINAL EPITHELIAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SQUIRREL; STROMA CELL; UTERUS; WILD TYPE;

EID: 84862816651     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.12.024     Document Type: Article

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