Gap junction blockade induces apoptosis in human endometrial stromal cells

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 666-675

  Yu, Jie ^a   Berga, Sarah L ^a   Zou, Wei ^b   Sun, He Ying ^c   Johnston Macananny, Erika ^a   Yalcinkaya, Tamer ^a   Sidell, Neil ^c   Bagchi, Indrani C ^d   Bagchi, Milan K ^e   Taylor, Robert N ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HEBEI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

18ALPHA GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; ALCOHOL; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BUCLADESINE; CASPASE 3; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONNEXIN 43; ESTRADIOL; GLYCYRRHIZIC ACID; OCTANOL; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; RNA; 18ALPHA-GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SHAPE; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUALIZATION; DRUG EXPOSURE; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GAP JUNCTION; GAP JUNCTION INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; HUMAN TISSUE; IC 50; IN VITRO STUDY; NICK END LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; RNA INTERFERENCE; STROMA CELL; TELOMERE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

APOPTOSIS; CELL SHAPE; CONNEXIN 43; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTIONS; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; HUMANS; OCTANOLS; STROMAL CELLS; TELOMERE;

EID: 84904421463     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.22334     Document Type: Article

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