Krüppel-Like factor 9 deficiency in uterine endometrial cells promotes ectopic lesion establishment associated with activated notch and hedgehog signaling in a mouse model of endometriosis

Endocrinology

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1532-1546

  Heard, Melissa E ^a   Simmons, Christian D ^a   Simmen, Frank A ^a   Simmen, Rosalia C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 9; NOTCH RECEPTOR; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL FLUID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFECT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA ISOLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMA CELL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ASCITIC FLUID; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84897904314     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-1947     Document Type: Article

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