Osteopontin is synthesized by uterine glands and a 45-kDa cleavage fragment is localized at the uterine-placental interface throughout ovine pregnancy

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 92-98

  Johnson, Greg A ^a,b   Burghardt, Robert C ^a,b   Joyce, Margaret M ^a,b   Spencer, Thomas E ^a,b   Bazer, Fuller W ^a,b   Gray, C Allison ^a,b   Pfarrer, Christiane ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Placenta; Pregnancy; Uterus

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; OSTEOPONTIN; SCLEROPROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOSYLATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SHEEP; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; ENDOMETRIUM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OSTEOPONTIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; SIALOGLYCOPROTEINS; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0038113082     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.013573     Document Type: Article

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