Female tract cytokines and developmental programming in embryos

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 843, Issue , 2015, Pages 173-213

  Robertson, Sarah A ^a   Chin, Peck Yin ^a   Schjenken, John E ^a   Thompson, Jeremy G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cytokines; Embryo; Growth factors; Stress response

Indexed keywords

COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HEPARIN BINDING EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN B; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 3;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL METABOLISM; CELL SURVIVAL; CONCEPTION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DELAYED IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; BLASTOCYST; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; UTERINE TUBE; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; BLASTOCYST; CELL SURVIVAL; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL GROWTH FACTORS; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERUS;

EID: 84929163653     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2480-6_7     Document Type: Article

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