Validation of the aging hen (Gallus gallus Domesticus) as an animal model for uterine leiomyomas

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Machado, Sergio A ^a   Bahr, Janice M ^a   Hales, D Buck ^b   Braundmeie, Andrea G ^a   Quade, Bradley J ^c   Nowak, Romana A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental origins of health and disease; Female reproductive tract; Leiomyoma; Oviduct; Steroid hormones steroid hormone receptors

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; DESMIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; HALOFUGINONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; STEROID RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLANT; HEN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME; TUMOR XENOGRAFT; UTERUS MYOMA;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHICKENS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; OVIDUCTS; PIPERIDINES; POULTRY DISEASES; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; QUINAZOLINONES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 84869408326     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.101188     Document Type: Article

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