Uterine glucocorticoid receptors are critical for fertility in mice through control of embryo implantation and decidualization

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 49, 2015, Pages 15166-15171

  Whirledge, Shannon D ^a   Oakley, Robert H ^a   Myers, Page H ^a   Lydon, John P ^b   DeMayo, Francesco ^b   Cidlowski, John A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decidualization; Glucocorticoid receptor; Implantation; Uterus

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUALIZATION; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE MODEL; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMA CELL; UTERUS; ANIMAL; DECIDUA; FERTILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DECIDUA; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; UTERUS;

EID: 84949293224     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1508056112     Document Type: Article

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