Molecular cloning of a cDNA encoding a bovine growth differentiation factor-9 (GDF-9) and expression of GDF-9 in bovine ovarian oocytes and in vitro-produced embryos

Cloning

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-10

  Sendai, Y ^a   Itoh, Takehiro ^a   Yamashita, Shoko ^a   Hoshi, Hiroyoshi ^a  

^a Res Inst for the Funct Peptides   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC CODE; GRANULOSA CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; MAMMALIA; OVIS;

EID: 0034989527     PISSN: 15204553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/152045501300189286     Document Type: Article

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