Effect of luteinizing hormone (LH), pregnancy-specific protein B (PSPB), or arachidonic acid (AA) on secretion of progesterone and prostaglandins (PG) E (PGE; PGE1 and PGE2) and F2α (PGF2α) by ovine corpora lutea of the estrous cycle or pregnancy in vitro

Prostaglandins and Other Lipid Mediators

Volumn 84, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 163-173

  Weems, Y S ^a   Kim, L ^a   Humphreys, V ^a   Tsuda, V ^a   Blankfein, R ^a   Wong, A ^a   Weems, C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus luteum; LH; PGE; PGF2 ; Pregnancy; Progesterone; PSPB

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONIC ACID; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PREGNANCY SPECIFIC PROTEIN B; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; PROSTAGLANDIN E1; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; EWE; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE RELEASE;

ANIMALS; ARACHIDONIC ACID; CATTLE; CORPUS LUTEUM; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; JUGULAR VEINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDINS; PROSTAGLANDINS E; PROSTAGLANDINS F; SHEEP;

EID: 35648951055     PISSN: 10988823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prostaglandins.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

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