Pig conceptuses secrete estrogen and interferons to differentially regulate uterine STAT1 in a temporal and cell type-specific manner

Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 4420-4431

  Joyce, Margaret M ^a   Burghardt, Robert C ^a   Geisert, Rodney D ^b   Burghardt, James R ^a   Hooper, R Neil ^a   Ross, Jason W ^b   Ashworth, Morgan D ^c   Johnson, Greg A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; INTERFERON; STAT1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESTROGEN RELEASE; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STROMA; SWINE; UPREGULATION; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PREGNANCY; STAT1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SWINE; UTERUS;

EID: 34548092111     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2007-0505     Document Type: Article

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