The motile and invasive capacity of human endometrial stromal cells: Implications for normal and impaired reproductive function

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 542-557

  Weimar, Charlotte H E ^a   Macklon, Nick S ^a,b   Post Uiterweer, Emiel D ^a   Brosens, Jan J ^c   Gellersen, Birgit ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d 2025 1 Hamburg ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decidualization; Human endometrial stromal cells; Implantation; Migration; Reproductive disorders

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; ACTIVIN A; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; ENDOCANNABINOID; ESTRADIOL; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; HEPARIN BINDING EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 8; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MICRORNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; OCTREOTIDE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR AA; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR AB; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BB; PROGESTERONE; RANTES; RESVERATROL; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SOMATOSTATIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UVOMORULIN;

ADENOMYOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; DECIDUALIZATION; ENDOMETRIAL STROMAL CELL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEDLINE; MENSTRUATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MESOTHELIUM CELL; MICROENVIRONMENT; NATURAL SELECTION; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PSEUDOPODIUM; RECURRENT PREGNANCY LOSS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STEM CELL; STROMA CELL; TISSUE REGENERATION; TROPHOBLAST; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

DECIDUALIZATION; HUMAN ENDOMETRIAL STROMAL CELLS; IMPLANTATION; MIGRATION; REPRODUCTIVE DISORDERS;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; ADENOMYOSIS; CELL MOVEMENT; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; REGENERATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; STROMAL CELLS; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 84882614611     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: 14602369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmt025     Document Type: Article

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