Localization and developmental changes in prostaglandin H synthase (PGHS) and PGHS messenger ribonucleic acid in ovine placenta throughout gestation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 654-659

  Gibb, W ^a   Matthews, S G ^b   Challis, J R G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ENDOMETRIUM; ENZYME INDUCTION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; LABOR; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; SHEEP; SYNCYTIUM; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; SULFUR RADIOISOTOPES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030053209     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.3.654     Document Type: Article

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