Tissue Remodeling in the Female Reproductive Tract-A Complex Process Becomes More Complex: The Role of Hox Genes

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Leppert, Phyllis C ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GROWTH FACTOR; HOX PROTEIN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOXA11 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; LIGAMENT; METABOLISM; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PHYSIOLOGY; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LIGAMENTS; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; UTERUS;

EID: 84864008337     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.099283     Document Type: Note

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