A microfluidic culture model of the human reproductive tract and 28-day menstrual cycle

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Xiao, Shuo ^a   Coppeta, Jonathan R ^b   Rogers, Hunter B ^a   Isenberg, Brett C ^b   Zhu, Jie ^a   Olalekan, Susan A ^a   McKinnon, Kelly E ^a   Dokic, Danijela ^a   Rashedi, Alexandra S ^a   Haisenleder, Daniel J ^c   Malpani, Saurabh S ^a   Arnold Murray, Chanel A ^a   Chen, Kuanwei ^a   Jiang, Mingyang ^a   Bai, Lu ^a   Nguyen, Catherine T ^a   Zhang, Jiyang ^a   Laronda, Monica M ^a   Hope, Thomas J ^a   Maniar, Kruti P ^a   Pavone, Mary Ellen ^a   Avram, Michael J ^a   Sefton, Elizabeth C ^a   Getsios, Spiro ^a   Burdette, Joanna E ^d   Kim, J Julie ^a   Borenstein, Jeffrey T ^b   Woodruff, Teresa K ^a   more..

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; CHEMORECEPTION; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; HOMEOSTASIS; HOMINID; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLANT; FALLOPIAN TUBE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; TISSUE BLOOD FLOW; TISSUE CULTURE; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS; ANIMAL; DEVICES; EVALUATION STUDY; PREGNANCY; SECRETION (PROCESS); TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE;

MURINAE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MICE; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; OVARY; PREGNANCY; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 85016461284     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14584     Document Type: Article

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