Failure of endometrial cup development in the donkey-in-horse model of equine abortion

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 188, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 575-589

  Enders, A C ^a   Meadows, Sally ^b   Stewart, Francesca ^b   Allen, W R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TBA Equine Fertility Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chorionic girdles; Equids; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN;

ABORTION; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL DEGENERATION; CHORION; DONKEY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYOLOGY; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FETUS; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORSE; LYMPHOCYTE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROMA; TROPHOBLAST; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UTERUS;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; CHORION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; EQUIDAE; FEMALE; HORSES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0030015726     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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