Actions of progesterone on uterine immunosuppression and endometrial gland development in the uterine gland knockout (UGKO) ewe

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 347-357

  Padua, Maria B ^a   Tekin, Şaban ^a,b   Spencer, Thomas E ^c   Hansen, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b GAZIOSMANPASA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunosuppression; Progesterone; Sheep; Uterine glands

Indexed keywords

CORN OIL; NORGESTOMET; PROGESTERONE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM GLAND; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOLOGY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; KNOCKOUT GENE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MUCUS GLAND; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; ENDOMETRIUM; EXOCRINE GLANDS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; PROGESTERONE; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

OVIS; OVIS ARIES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 20044363103     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20301     Document Type: Article

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