Characterization of rat follistatin-related gene: Effects of estrous cycle stage and pregnancy on its messenger RNA expression in rat reproductive tissues

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 199-206

  Arai, Koji Y ^a,c   Tsuchida, Kunihiro ^b   Uehara, Kohkichi ^a   Taya, Kazuyoshi ^a   Sugino, Hiromu ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Decidua; Follistatin; Growth factors; Placenta

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FOLLISTATIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN FLRG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENAL GLAND; ARTICLE; B CELL LEUKEMIA; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DECIDUA; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART; HYPOPHYSIS; KIDNEY; LUNG; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SMALL INTESTINE; TESTIS; UTERUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DECIDUA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FOLLISTATIN; FOLLISTATIN-RELATED PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0037235220     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.008565     Document Type: Article

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