Embryo implantation evolved from an ancestral inflammatory attachment reaction

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

Volumn 114, Issue 32, 2017, Pages E6566-E6575

  Griffith, Oliver W ^a   Chavan, Arun R ^a   Protopapas, Stella ^a   Maziarz, Jamie ^a   Romero, Roberto ^b,c,d,e   Wagner, Gunter P ^a,e,f  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Inflammation; Marsupial; Placenta; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN BINDING EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; MUCIN 1; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EGG SHELL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MARSUPIAL; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PLACENTAL MAMMAL; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TROPHOBLAST; UTERUS; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; MONODELPHIS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEPARIN-BINDING EGF-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; MICE; MONODELPHIS; MUCIN-1; PREGNANCY;

EID: 85026870409     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1701129114     Document Type: Article

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