Activation of the complete mouse metallothionein gene locus in the maternal deciduum

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-37

  Liang, Luchuan ^a   Fu, Kai ^a   Lee, Dae K ^a   Sobieski, Rodney J ^b   Dalton, Tim ^a   Andrews, Glen K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deciduum; Metallothionein III; Metallothionein IV; Pregnancy; Reproductive tract

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; ENDOTOXIN; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOTHIONEIN; ZINC;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 8; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INFLAMMATION; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORIDES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DECIDUA; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; LIVER; METALLOTHIONEIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; UTERUS; YOLK SAC; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0030052798     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199601)43:1<25::AID-MRD4>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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