Characterization and differential expression of vascular endothelial growth factor isoforms and receptors in swine corpus luteum throughout estrous cycle

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 163-171

  Ribeiro, Luciana Andrea ^a   Bacci, Maria Laura ^a   Seren, Eraldo ^a   Tamanini, Carlo ^a   Forni, Monica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corpus luteum; Pig; Real Time; VEGF isoforms; VEGFR1; VEGFR2

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; LIGAND; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR 120; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR 144; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR 147; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR 164; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR 164B; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR 182; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR 188; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN VARIANT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE; VESSEL LUMEN FORMATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CORPUS LUTEUM; DNA PRIMERS; ESTRUS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SWINE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

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EID: 33845474114     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20589     Document Type: Article

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