The influence of pre- and post-ovulatory insemination and early pregnancy on the infiltration by cells of the immune system in the sow oviduct

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 455-466

  Jiwakanon, J ^a,b   Persson, E ^a,b   Dalin, A M ^a,b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BREEDING; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MACROPHAGE; NEUTROPHIL; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SWINE; TIME; UTERINE TUBE;

ANIMALS; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; LYMPHOCYTES; MACROPHAGES; NEUTROPHILS; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SWINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33748788233     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2006.00695.x     Document Type: Article

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