English

Adjective

decidual ‎(not comparable)

1. of or relating to the decidua
   • 2000 January 21, Chenguang Xu et al., “A Critical Role for Murine Complement Regulator Crry in Fetomaternal Tolerance”, in Science, volume 287, number 5452, DOI:10.1126/science.287.5452.498, pages 498-501:

     In addition, Crry is also expressed in the maternally derived decidual tissues (Fig. 2 A).

   • 1998 March 20, Jianming Xu et al., “Partial Hormone Resistance in Mice with Disruption of the Steroid Receptor Coactivator-1 (SRC-1) Gene”, in Science, volume 279, number 5358, DOI:10.1126/science.279.5358.1922, pages 1922-1925:

     Uterine response to mechanical traumatization (decidual stimulation) is a progesterone receptor (PR)-dependent process (22 ).