Oogenetic and zygotic gene expression directing early bovine embryogenesis: A review

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 112-121

  De Sousa, P A ^a   Watson, A J ^a   Schultz, G A ^b   Bilodeau Goeseels, S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Chromatin re programming; Implantation; Polarity; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); CONNEXIN 37; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; GROWTH FACTOR; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RNA; MESSENGER RNA; ONCOPROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CELL ADHESION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE; TIGHT JUNCTION; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL ADHESION; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; NA(+)-K(+)-EXCHANGING ATPASE; OOGENESIS; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; TIGHT JUNCTIONS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0031826894     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199809)51:1<112::AID-MRD14>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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