Coculturing human endometrial epithelial cells and stromal fibroblasts alters cell-specific gene expression and cytokine production

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1132-1143

  Chen, Joseph C ^a   Erikson, David W ^a   Piltonen, Terhi T ^a,b   Meyer, Michelle R ^a   Barragan, Fatima ^a   McIntire, Ramsey H ^c   Tamaresis, John S ^a   Vo, Kim Chi ^a   Giudice, Linda C ^a   Irwin, Juan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c EMD Millipore   (United States)

Author keywords

coculture; cytokines; Endometrium; microarray; polarized epithelium; stroma

Indexed keywords

TIGHT JUNCTION PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENDOMETRIAL EPITHELIAL CELL; ENDOMETRIAL STROMAL FIBROBLAST; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; MONOCULTURE; POLARIZATION; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

COCULTURE; CYTOKINES; ENDOMETRIUM; MICROARRAY; POLARIZED EPITHELIUM; STROMA;

ADULT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL POLARITY; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SHAPE; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; CYTOKINES; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STROMAL CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84884908744     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2013.06.007     Document Type: Article

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