Interferons and the maternal-conceptus dialog in mammals

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 170-177

  Roberts, R Michael ^a,b   Chen, Yizhen ^a   Ezashi, Toshihiko ^a   Walker, Angela M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometrium; Implantation; Interferon response; Pregnancy; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERFERON; TAU INTERFERON;

CATTLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SHEEP; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TROPHOBLAST; UNGULATE; UPREGULATION;

BOS; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES; UNGULATA;

EID: 39149129390     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2007.10.007     Document Type: Review

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