Assessment by differential display-RT-PCR of mRNA transcript transitions and α-amanitin sensitivity during bovine preattachment development

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 152-163

  Natale, David R ^a   Kidder, Gerald M ^a   Westhusin, Mark E ^b   Watson, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Gene expression; In vitro fertilization; Oocyte

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMANITIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CELL MATURATION; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

AMANITINS; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, MESSENGER; URIDINE;

EID: 0033962933     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(200002)55:2<152::AID-MRD4>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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