Uterine growth, cell proliferation, and c-fos proto-oncogene expression throughout the estrous cycle in ewes

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 393-401

  Johnson, Mary Lynn ^a   Redmer, Dale A ^a   Reynolds, Lawrence P ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; ESTRUS CYCLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; SHEEP; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UTERUS FUNCTION; UTERUS GROWTH; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; DNA; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRADIOL; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FOS; ORGAN SIZE; PROGESTERONE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0031055860     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.2.393     Document Type: Article

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