NODAL signaling components regulate essential events in the establishment of pregnancy

Reproduction

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Park, Craig B ^a   Dufort, Daniel ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GELATINASE B; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; LEFT RIGHT DETERMINATION FACTOR; NODAL SIGNALING PROTEIN; STROMELYSIN;

BLASTOCYST; DECIDUALIZATION; ESTRUS CYCLE; EXPERIMENTATION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERUS GROWTH;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; NODAL PROTEIN; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84874069224     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-12-0103     Document Type: Review

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