Expression analysis of the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (STAR) gene in developing porcine conceptuses

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 419-429

  Blomberg, Le Ann ^a   Zuelke, Kurt A ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryo development; Preimplantation; STAR; Steroidogenesis; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SERIAL ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; STAR GENE; STEROIDOGENESIS; SWINE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; BLASTOCYST; CHOLESTEROL; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; SWINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 27144498566     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20369     Document Type: Article

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