Messenger RNA expression patterns of histone-associated genes in bovine preimplantation embryos derived from different origins

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 731-743

  Nowak Imialek, Monika ^a   Wrenzycki, Christine ^a,c   Herrmann, Doris ^a   Lucas Hahn, Andrea ^a   Lagutina, Irina ^b   Lemme, Erika ^a   Lazzari, Giovanna ^b   Galli, Cesare ^b   Niemann, Heiner ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR TIERZUCHT   (Germany)

^b Laboratorio di Tecnologie della Riproduzione   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bovine embryos; Epigenetics; Histone modification; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; HISTONE; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 2; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEACETYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; EMBRYO; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 2 GENE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE MATURATION; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ZYGOTE;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CLONING, ORGANISM; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HISTONES; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PARTHENOGENESIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BOVINAE;

EID: 41149145345     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20816     Document Type: Article

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