Isolation of pregnancy-associated glycoproteins from placenta of the American bison (Bison bison) at first half of pregnancy

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 164-175

  Kiewisz, Jolanta ^a   Sousa, Noelita Melo de ^b   Beckers, Jean Francois ^b   Vervaecke, Hilde ^c   Panasiewicz, Grzegorz ^a   Szafranska, Bozena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

AmbPAGs; American bison; Cotyledons; PAG; Placenta

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; PLACENTA ASSOCIATED GLYCOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BUFFALO; FEMALE; FETUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

EID: 36248941964     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2007.04.011     Document Type: Article

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