The Transcription Factor NFIL3 Is Essential for Normal Placental and Embryonic Development but Not for Uterine Natural Killer (UNK) Cell Differentiation in Mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Redhead, Mackenzie L ^a   Portilho, Nathália A ^a   Felker, Allison M ^a   Mohammad, Shuhiba ^a   Mara, Danielle L ^a   Croy, B Anne ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decidua; Fetal growth retardation; Hematopoietic cell transplantation; Spiral arterial modification; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR GAMMA; RAG2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFIL3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NFIL3 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNER EAR; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHOBLAST; UTERINE NATURAL KILLER CELL; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; NIDATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; REPRODUCTION; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PLACENTA; PLACENTATION; PREGNANCY; UTERUS;

EID: 84977083823     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.116.138495     Document Type: Article

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