Lactoferrin expression in the horse endometrium: Relevance in persisting mating-induced endometritis

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 114, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 159-167

  Kolm, Gabriela ^a   Klein, Dieter ^a   Knapp, Elzbieta ^a   Watanabe, Kiyotaka ^b   Walter, Ingrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endometrium; Horse; Lactoferrin; PCR

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MATING; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD18; BIOPSY; ENDOMETRITIS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LACTOFERRIN; PREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33748764148     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2006.08.005     Document Type: Article

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