STAT3 regulates uterine epithelial remodeling and epithelial-stromal crosstalk during implantation

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1996-2012

  Pawar, Sandeep ^a   Starosvetsky, Elina ^a   Orvis, Grant D ^c   Behringer, Richard R ^c   Bagchi, Indrani C ^b   Bagchi, Milan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIREGULIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYTOKINE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; ESTROGEN; HEPARIN BINDING EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; PROGESTERONE; RNA; SERIC GONADOTROPIN; STAT3 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STROMA CELL; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DECIDUA; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; STROMAL CELLS; UTERUS;

EID: 84888319266     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2013-1206     Document Type: Article

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