Changes of mRNA expression of vascular endothelial growth factor, angiopoietins and their receptors during the periovulatory period in eCG/hCG-treated immature female rats

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Comparative Experimental Biology

Volumn 303, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 590-597

  Miyabayashi, Kanako ^a   Shimizu, Takashi ^a,b   Kawauchi, Chiaki ^a   Sasada, Hiroshi ^a   Sato, Eimei ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE;

ANGIOPOIETIN; ANGIOPOIETIN RECEPTOR; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; METABOLISM; OVULATION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOPOIETINS; ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; OVULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR, TIE-2; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 23044437159     PISSN: 15488969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.a.188     Document Type: Article

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