Elevated periimplantation uterine natural killer cell density in human endometrium is associated with impaired corticosteroid signaling in decidualizing stromal cells

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 98, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4429-4437

  Kuroda, Keiji ^a,b   Venkatakrishnan, Radha ^a   James, Sean ^a   Šućurović, Sandra ^c   Mulac Jericevic, Biserka ^c   Lucas, Emma S ^a   Takeda, Satoru ^b   Shmygol, Anatoly ^a   Brosens, Jan J ^a   Quenby, Siobhan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 1; CD56 ANTIGEN; CELL ENZYME; CORTICOSTEROID; DEHYDROGENASE REDUCTASE MEMBER 3; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 11; INTERLEUKIN 15; LIPID; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PROLACTIN; RETINOID; RETINOL SATURASE; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTISOL DEFICIENCY; DECIDUALIZATION; ENDOMETRIAL STROMAL CELL; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENZYME INDUCTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; LIPOGENESIS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; STROMA CELL; TISSUE MICROARRAY; UTERINE NATURAL KILLER CELL;

11-BETA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE TYPE 1; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DECIDUA; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; PREGNANCY; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 84887425042     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2013-1977     Document Type: Article

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