Recombinant ovine and bovine interferons tau regulate prostaglandin production and oxytocin response in cultured bovine endometrial cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 402-408

  Asselin, Eric ^a   Bazer, Fuller W ^b   Fortier, Michel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; TAU INTERFERON;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CATTLE; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESTRUS CYCLE; LUTEOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN METABOLISM; PULSATILE FLOW; SEMINAL PLASMA; STROMA CELL;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; DINOPROST; DINOPROSTONE; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; INTERFERON TYPE I; INTERFERON TYPE II; OXYTOCIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SHEEP; STROMAL CELLS;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; OVIS;

EID: 0031056885     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.2.402     Document Type: Article

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