The effects of immunizing sheep with different BMP15 or GDF9 peptide sequences on ovarian follicular activity and ovulation rate

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 552-560

  McNatty, Kenneth P ^a,b   Hudson, Norma L ^a   Whiting, Lynda ^a   Reader, Karen L ^a   Lun, Stan ^a   Western, Andrea ^a   Heath, Derek A ^a   Smith, Peter ^a   Moore, Lloyd G ^a   Juengel, Jennifer L ^a  

^a AGRESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Follicle; Follicular development; Granulosa cells; Growth factors; Ovary

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTISERUM; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 15; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; FREUND ADJUVANT; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; KEYHOLE LIMPET HEMOCYANIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PROCOLLAGEN C PROTEINASE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; THYMIDINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANESTRUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOVULATION; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; DIMERIZATION; EWE; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNIZATION; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; VACCINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONTRACEPTION, IMMUNOLOGIC; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELLS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RATS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SHEEP; VACCINATION;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; RATTUS;

EID: 33947498612     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.054361     Document Type: Article

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