Biodiversity of multiple Pregnancy-Associated Glycoprotein (PAG) family: Gene cloning and chorionic protein purification in domestic and wild eutherians (Placentalia) - A review

Reproduction Nutrition Development

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 481-502

  Szafranska, Bozena ^a   Panasiewicz, Grzegorz ^a   Majewska, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chorionic glycoproteins; Diagnostic PAG markers; Eutherian PAG family

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PROTEIN;

ARTIODACTYLA; BIODIVERSITY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; ARTIODACTYLA; ASPARTIC ACID ENDOPEPTIDASES; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; CHORION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS;

ARTIODACTYLA; EUTHERIA;

EID: 33750065129     PISSN: 09265287     EISSN: 12979708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/rnd:2006034     Document Type: Review

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