Changes in Structures and Relationships of Trophoblasts, Leukocytes, and Maternal Vessels in Implantation Sites to Midpregnancy

The Guide to Investigation of Mouse Pregnancy

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 189-200

  Hofmann, Alexander P ^a   Rätsep, Matthew T ^a   Chen, Zhilin ^a   Felker, Allison M ^a   Croy, B Anne ^a   Gerber, Scott A ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Antibody; Decidua; Endothelium; Immune deficient mice; Leukocytes; Microscopy; Placenta growth factor; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

EID: 85052409877     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394445-0.00015-1     Document Type: Chapter

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