Changes of messenger RNAs encoding vascular endothelial growth factor and its receptors during the development and maintenance of caprine corpora lutea

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 166-171

  Kawate, Noritoshi ^a   Tsuji, Makoto ^a   Tamada, Hiromichi ^a   Inaba, Toshio ^a   Sawada, Tsutomu ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

CD34; CL; Goat; mRNA; VEGF; VEGF receptors

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; FETAL LIVER KINASE 1; FMS LIKE TYROSINE KINASE; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENCY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GOAT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA PROBE;

ANIMALS; CORPUS LUTEUM; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GOATS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LYMPHOKINES; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

CAPRA; CAPRA HIRCUS;

EID: 0037297873     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.10244     Document Type: Article

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