The role of platelet-activating factor in the mammalian female reproductive tract

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 647-655

  Tiemann, U ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR;

ANIMAL; BIRTH; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; NIDATION; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; MAMMALS; OVULATION; PARTURITION; PLATELET ACTIVATING FACTOR; REPRODUCTION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 56049128147     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2007.00959.x     Document Type: Review

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