Large-format, two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of ovine periimplantation uterine luminal fluid proteins: Identification of aldose reductase, cytoplasmic actin, and transferrin as conceptus-synthesized proteins

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 743-752

  Lee, Rita S F ^a   Wheeler, Thomas T ^a   Peterson, A James ^a  

^a RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ALDEHYDE REDUCTASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; TRANSFERRIN;

AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENDOMETRIUM; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SHEEP; UTERUS FLUID;

ACTINS; ALDEHYDE REDUCTASE; ALLANTOIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOOD PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CYTOPLASM; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; TRANSFERRIN; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0031658082     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.4.743     Document Type: Article

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