Ubiquitin cross-reactive protein is released by the bovine uterus in response to interferon during early pregnancy

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 600-606

  Austin, Kathy J ^a   Ward, Stephanie K ^a,b   Teixeira, M Glaucia ^a   Dean, Victoria C ^a   Moore, David W ^a   Hansen, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b RIBI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOMETRIUM PROTEIN; EPITOPE; INTERFERON; RECOMBINANT INTERFERON; TAU INTERFERON; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; CROSS REACTION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATTLE; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; INTERFERON TYPE I; INTERFERON-ALPHA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; UBIQUITINS; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE;

EID: 0029977990     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.3.600     Document Type: Article

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