Wnt activation downregulates olfactomedin-1 in Fallopian tubal epithelial cells: A microenvironment predisposed to tubal ectopic pregnancy

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 256-264

  Kodithuwakku, Suranga P ^a,c   Pang, Ronald T K ^a   Ng, Ernest H Y ^a   Cheung, Annie N Y ^a   Horne, Andrew W ^b   Ho, Pak Chung ^a   Yeung, William S B ^a   Lee, Kai Fai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Fallopian tube; olfactomedin 1; tubal ectopic pregnancy; Wnt signaling

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; OLFACTOMEDIN 1; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; WNT3A PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUTEAL PHASE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPHEROID CELL; TROPHOBLAST; UTERINE TUBE PREGNANCY;

ADULT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DOWN-REGULATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, TUBAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 84863063431     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: 15300307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.2011.148     Document Type: Article

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