Antioxidant defenses are modulated in the cow oviduct during the estrous cycle

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1157-1164

  Lapointe, Jérôme ^a,b   Bilodeau, Jean François ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fallopian tubes; Female reproductive tract; Fertilization; Oviduct; Ovulatory cycle

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYDROPEROXIDE; MESSENGER RNA; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ESTRUS CYCLE; FERTILIZATION; IMPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SPERM;

ANIMALS; CATALASE; CATTLE; ESTRUS; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; EUKARYOTA; FALLOPIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037379499     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.007476     Document Type: Article

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