Postnatal uterine development in Inverdale ewe lambs

Reproduction

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 357-365

  Hayashi, Kanako ^a   O'Connell, Anne R ^b   Juengel, Jennifer L ^c   McNatty, Ken P ^d   Davis, George H ^a   Bazer, Fuller W ^a   Spencer, Thomas E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INVERMAY AGRICULTURAL CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^c AGRESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN RECEPTOR 1; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR 1A; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR 2; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR 1B; ESTRADIOL; INHIBIN A; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; EWE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; INFERTILITY; MORPHOMETRICS; MYOMETRIUM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; UTERUS GROWTH; UTERUS HORN; UTERUS WEIGHT; WILD TYPE;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BREEDING; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INHIBINS; MYOMETRIUM; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; OVULATION; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; TESTOSTERONE; UTERUS;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 40949152334     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-07-0323     Document Type: Article

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