Production of interferon by the conceptus in red deer Cervus elaphus

Journal of Reproduction and Fertility

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 59-65

  Demmers, K J ^a   Kaluz, S ^a,d   Deakin, D W ^b   Jabbour, H N ^c   Flint, A P F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ADAS BOXWORTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; PRIMER RNA; PROGESTERONE; RNA; TAU INTERFERON;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPTION; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; DEER; DEVICE; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE EXPRESSION; INHIBITION KINETICS; LUTEOLYSIS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE RELEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA PROBE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UTERUS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; BOVIDAE; BOVINAE; CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0032969393     PISSN: 00224251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/jrf.0.1150059     Document Type: Article

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