Gap Junction Protein Vital To Successful Pregnancy, Researchers Find

Monday, September 15, 2008 - 10:57 in Biology & Nature

Researchers studying a critical stage of pregnancy -- implantation of the embryo in the uterus -- have found a protein that is vital to the growth of new blood vessels that sustain the embryo. Without this protein, which is produced in higher quantities in the presence of estrogen, the embryo is unlikely to survive.

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