The Macaque Endometrium, with Special Reference to the Cynomolgus Monkey (Macaca fascicularis)

Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 36, Issue 7_suppl, 2008, Pages 67S-100S

  Van Esch, Eric ^a   Cline, J Mark ^b   Buse, Eberhard ^b   Weinbauer, Gerhard F ^c  

^a Department of Toxicology and Drug Disposition ^*  (Netherlands)

^b Department of Veterinary Services and Colony Management   (Germany)

^c WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cynomolgus monkey; endometrial dating; endometrium; female reproduction; histology; hormone receptors; menstrual cycle

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; HORMONE; HORMONE RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; RELAXIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; FOLLICULAR PHASE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUTEAL PHASE; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHOCYTE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; NERVE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; UTERUS GROWTH; WITHDRAWAL BLEEDING;

EID: 84992533014     PISSN: 01926233     EISSN: 15331601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192623308326149     Document Type: Article

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