Development of Meishan and Yorkshire littermate conceptuses in either a Meishan or Yorkshire uterine environment to day 90 of gestation and to term

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 905-910

  Wilson, Matthew E ^a   Biensen, Nina J ^a   Youngs, Curtis R ^a   Ford, Stephen P ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS WEIGHT; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PLACENTA WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; UTERUS; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GESTATIONAL AGE; ORGAN SIZE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0031896375     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod58.4.905     Document Type: Article

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