In-vitro model systems for the study of human embryo-endometrium interactions

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 461-476

  Weimar, Charlotte H E ^a   Post Uiterweer, Emiel D ^a   Teklenburg, Gijs ^a   Heijnen, Cobi J ^a,b   Macklon, Nick S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

co culture; embryo; endometrium; implantation; in vitro; model

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR1; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EOTAXIN; HEPARIN BINDING EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; PROGESTERONE; SIALYL LEWIS X ANTIGEN;

CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOMETRIUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; HUMAN EMBRYO; IN VITRO STUDY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

CO-CULTURE; EMBRYO; ENDOMETRIUM; IMPLANTATION; IN VITRO; MODEL;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 84887319270     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2013.08.002     Document Type: Review

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