Broad gap junction blocker carbenoxolone disrupts uterine preparation for embryo implantation in mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Diao, Honglu ^a,b   Xiao, Shuo ^a   Howerth, Elizabeth W ^a   Zhao, Fei ^a   Li, Rong ^a   Ard, Mary B ^a   Ye, Xiaoqin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Carbenoxolone; Embryo implantation; Gap junctions; Uterine luminal epithelium

Indexed keywords

CARBENOXOLONE; CONNEXIN 26; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GLYCYRRHIZIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUALIZATION; DELAYED IMPLANTATION; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUMINAL EPITHELIUM; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS CELL TEST; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; UTERINE LUMINAL EPITHELIUM; UTERUS;

CARBENOXOLONE; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; GAP JUNCTIONS; UTERINE LUMINAL EPITHELIUM;

ANIMALS; CARBENOXOLONE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONNEXINS; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTIONS; MICE; UP-REGULATION; UTERUS;

EID: 84885996077     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.110106     Document Type: Article

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