A comparison of the anti-luteolytic activities of recombinant ovine interferon-alpha and -tau in sheep

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1087-1093

  Green, M P ^a,d   Spate, L D ^a   Bixby, J A ^a   Ealy, A D ^b   Roberts, R M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c 105F Life Sciences Center ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Conceptus; Corpus luteum; Endometrium; Estrous cycle; Pregnancy; Progesterone; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; SERUM ALBUMIN; TAU INTERFERON;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; LUTEOLYSIS; LYMPHOCYTE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PICHIA PASTORIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN CONTENT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHEEP; TROPHOBLAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CORPUS LUTEUM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; INTERFERON TYPE I; INTERFERON TYPE I, RECOMBINANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; PICHIA PASTORIS;

EID: 28144440485     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.105.043406     Document Type: Article

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