Measurement of early pregnancy factor activity for monitoring the viability of the equine embryo

Theriogenology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 255-262

  Takagi, M ^c   Nishimura, K ^c   Oguri, N ^a   Ohnuma, K ^b   Ito, K ^b   Takahashi, J ^b   Yasuda, Y ^b   Miyazawa, K ^c   Sato, K ^c  

^a Pony Farm   (Japan)

^b IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Early embryonic death; Early pregnancy factor; Equine embryo

Indexed keywords

EARLY PREGNANCY FACTOR; GLYCOPROTEIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEATH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYOLOGY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TEST; SUBFERTILITY;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; PEPTIDES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PREGNANCY TESTS; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SUPPRESSOR FACTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0032528475     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(98)00133-2     Document Type: Article

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