Increased bax and interleukin-1β-converting enzyme messenger ribonucleic acid levels coincide with apoptosis in the bovine corpus luteum during structural regression

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 186-193

  Rueda, Bo R ^b,e   Tilly, Kim I ^a   Botros, Ihab W ^b   Jolly, Peter D ^c   Hansen, Thomas R ^d   Hoyer, Patricia B ^b   Tilly, Jonathan L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c AGRESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^e Dept of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA TROMETAMOL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CORPUS LUTEUM FUNCTION; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE EXPRESSION; LUTEOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BCL-X PROTEIN; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CASPASE 1; CATTLE; CORPUS LUTEUM; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, P53; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SERPINS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0031012208     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.1.186     Document Type: Article

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