A cloning and expression analysis of pregnancy-associated glycoproteins expressed in trophoblasts of the white-tail deer placenta

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1355-1362

  Brandt, Gretchen A ^a   Parks, Tina E ^a   Killian, Gary ^b   Ealy, Alan D ^c   Green, Jonathan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspartic peptidase; Reproduction; Uterus

Indexed keywords

PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED GLYCOPROTEIN 4; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED GLYCOPROTEIN 5; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED GLYCOPROTEIN 8; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED GLYCOPROTEIN 9; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COTYLEDON; DEER; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TROPHOBLAST; UTERUS; WESTERN BLOTTING; WHITE TAIL DEER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEER; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; TROPHOBLASTS;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVIDAE; CAPRA HIRCUS; CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; OVIS ARIES; SUIDAE;

EID: 34748836571     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20669     Document Type: Article

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