Vascular Notch proteins and Notch signaling in the peri-implantation mouse uterus

Vascular Cell

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Shawber, Carrie J ^a,b   Lin, Lu ^a   Gnarra, Maria ^a   Sauer, Mark V ^a   Papaioannou, Virginia E ^a   Kitajewski, Jan K ^a   Douglas, Nataki C ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Decidua; Dll4; Endothelial cells; Implantation; Jagged1; Notch; Pericytes

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CD31 ANTIGEN; CELL MARKER; CELL RECEPTOR; DELTA LIKE 4; DESMIN; JAGGED1; NOTCH RECEPTOR; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; NOTCH2 RECEPTOR; NOTCH3 RECEPTOR; NOTCH4 RECEPTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIAL CELL; CELL INTERACTION; DECIDUA; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; LYMPH VESSEL; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PERICYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84956942799     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2045824X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13221-015-0034-y     Document Type: Article

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