Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor and its receptors in the porcine corpus luteum during the estrous cycle and early pregnancy

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 730-739

  Kaczmarek, Monika M ^a   Kowalczyk, Anna E ^a   Waclawik, Agnieszka ^a   Schams, Dieter ^b   Ziecik, Adam J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL REPRODUCTION AND FOOD RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Corpus luteum; Pig; VEGF; VEGF receptors

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; CYTOPLASM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEAL PHASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SWINE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CORPUS LUTEUM; CORPUS LUTEUM MAINTENANCE; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GESTATIONAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SWINE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 34247631047     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20638     Document Type: Article

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