The Chemokine Receptor CCR2 Is Not Required for Successful Initiation of Labor in Mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Menzies, Fiona M ^a   Khan, Abdul H ^a   Higgins, Claire A ^a   Nelson, Scott M ^a   Nibbs, Robert J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CCL2; CCR2; Chemokine; Labor; Monocyte macrophage; Parturition; Reproductive immunology

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR2; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONNEXIN 43; LIGAND; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; CCR2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; INFLAMMATION; LABOR; LABOR INDUCTION; MACROPHAGE; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; MYOMETRIUM; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS; ANIMAL; BONE MARROW CELL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL MOTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CHEMOKINES; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MYELOID CELLS; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, CCR2; UTERUS;

EID: 84863994790     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.094631     Document Type: Article

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