Altered endometrial expression of endothelial nitric oxide synthase in women with unexplained recurrent miscarriage and infertility

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 408-414

  Najafi, Tohid ^a   Novin, Marefat Ghaffari ^a   Ghazi, Reza ^b   Khorram, Omid ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

endometrium; eNOS; immunohistochemistry; real time RT PCR; recurrent miscarriage; unexplained infertility

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM GLANDULAR EPITHELIUM; ENDOMETRIUM LUMINAL EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NIDATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STROMA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; ADULT; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 84867102780     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2012.07.004     Document Type: Article

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