Concentrations of progesterone, follistatin, and follicle-stimulating hormone in peripheral plasma across the estrous cycle and pregnancy in merino ewes that are homozygous or noncarriers of the Booroola gene

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1079-1084

  Xia, Y ^a   O'Shea, T ^a   Murison, R ^a   McFarlane, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Follistatin; Menstrual cycle; Pregnancy; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FOLLISTATIN; FOLLITROPIN; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR 1B GENE; BOOROOLA GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FECB GENE; FETUS; FOLLICULAR PHASE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE; GENOTYPE; HORMONAL REGULATION; LUTEAL PHASE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; SHEEP; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TWIN PREGNANCY;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTORS, TYPE I; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLISTATIN; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; OVULATION; PERIODICITY; POINT MUTATION; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0041860858     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.005512     Document Type: Article

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