Differences in trophectoderm mitotic rate and P450 17α-hydroxylase expression between late preimplantation Meishan and Yorkshire conceptuses

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 380-385

  Wilson, Matthew E ^a   Ford, Stephen P ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL GROWTH; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MITOSIS RATE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MITOSIS; PREGNANCY; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0031055859     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.2.380     Document Type: Article

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