Endometrial responsiveness to oxytocin during diestrus and early pregnancy in pigs is not controlled solely by changes in oxytocin receptor population density

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 769-777

  Ludwig, Tenneille E ^a,c   Sun, Bee Chun ^b   Carnahan, Kevin G ^a   Uzumcu, Mehmet ^a,d   Yelich, Joel V ^b,e   Geisert, Rodney D ^b   Mirando, Mark A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d Research Center   (Saudi Arabia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM FLUORIDE; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DIESTRUS; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; LUTEOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RECEPTOR OCCUPANCY; SWINE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CORPUS LUTEUM MAINTENANCE; DIESTRUS; DINOPROST; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FLUORIDES; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HYDROLYSIS; LUTEOLYSIS; OXYTOCIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RNA, MESSENGER; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0031907478     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod58.3.769     Document Type: Article

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