Expression of the interferon tau inducible ubiquitin cross-reactive protein in the ovine uterus

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 312-318

  Johnson, Greg A ^a   Spencer, Thomas E ^a   Hansen, Thomas R ^b   Austin, Kathy J ^b   Burghardt, Robert C ^a,c   Bazer, Fuller W ^a,d  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAU INTERFERON; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN CROSS REACTIVE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SHEEP; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CATTLE; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERFERON TYPE I; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; STROMAL CELLS; UBIQUITINS; UTERUS;

EID: 0032986291     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod61.1.312     Document Type: Article

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