Navigating the site for embryo implantation: Biomechanical and molecular regulation of intrauterine embryo distribution

Molecular Aspects of Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1024-1042

  Chen, Qi ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   Elad, David ^b   Jaffa, Ariel J ^b,c   Cao, Yujing ^a   Ye, Xiaoqin ^d   Duan, Enkui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c LIS MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; AQUAPORIN 1; AQUAPORIN 2; AQUAPORIN 5; AQUAPORIN 7; AQUAPORIN 8; BETA CATENIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; EPITHELIAL SODIUM CHANNEL; ESTROGEN; ION CHANNEL; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPID; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN; PROTEIN NODAL; SECRETED FRIZZLED RELATED PROTEIN 2; SERUM AND GLUCOCORTICOID REGULATED KINASE 1; STEROID HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER CHANNEL; WNT PROTEIN; HORMONE;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ANTIMESOMETRIAL LOCATION; BETA CATENIN GENE; BIOMECHANICS; BMP2 GENE; CELL TYPE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; EMBRYO ORIENTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRAUTERINE EMBRYO REDISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MESOMETRIUM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NIDATION; NODAL GENE; NONHUMAN; PERISTALSIS; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SFRP2 GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERINE VERTICAL AXIS; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY; UTERUS FLUID; WNT GENE; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; MICE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERUS;

EID: 84881184158     PISSN: 00982997     EISSN: 18729452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2012.07.017     Document Type: Review

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