Expression of interferon regulatory factors one and two in the ovine endometrium: Effects of pregnancy and ovine interferon tau

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1154-1162

  Spencer, Thomas E ^a   Ott, Troy L ^a   Bazer, Fuller W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 1; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 2; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; TAU INTERFERON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHEEP; UTERUS HORN;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR-1; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR-2; INTERFERON TYPE I; OVARIECTOMY; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SHEEP; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0031968750     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod58.5.1154     Document Type: Article

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