Pig conceptuses increase uterine interferon-regulatory factor 1 (IRF1), but restrict expression to stroma through estrogen-induced IRF2 in luminal epithelium

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 292-302

  Joyce, Margaret M ^a   Burghardt, James R ^a   Burghardt, Robert C ^a   Hooper, R Neil ^a   Jaeger, Laurie A ^a   Spencer, Thomas E ^a,b   Bazer, Fuller W ^a,b   Johnson, Greg A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptus; Estradiol; Estrogen; Gene regulation; Interferons; Pregnancy; Trophoblast; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN; INTERFERON; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 1; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 2; PLASMA PROTEIN; SECRETORY PROTEIN; STAT2 PROTEIN; TAU INTERFERON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B2M GENE; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROGEN RELEASE; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; ISG GENE; MIC GENE; MX1 GENE; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PUMP; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; STROMA; SWINE; TROPHOBLAST; UTERUS; UTERUS HORN;

ANIMALS; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR-1; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR-2; INTERFERONS; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; SWINE; UTERUS;

OVIS ARIES; SUIDAE;

EID: 34547411524     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.107.060939     Document Type: Article

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