Uterine environment and breed effects on erythropoiesis and liver protein secretion in late embryonic and early fetal swine

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 911-918

  Pearson, Paul L ^a   Klemcke, Harold G ^a   Christenson, Ronald K ^a   Vallet, Jeffrey L ^a,b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b U S MEAT ANIMAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN; LIVER PROTEIN; TRANSFERRIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS WEIGHT; HEMATOCRIT; LIVER; LIVER WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RETICULOCYTE; SWINE; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROPOIESIS; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GENOTYPE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYSTERECTOMY; LIVER; ORGAN SIZE; OVARIECTOMY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TRANSFERRIN; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0031953001     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod58.4.911     Document Type: Article

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