Bovine endometrial legumain and TIMP-2 regulation in response to presence of a conceptus

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-74

  Ledgard, Anita M ^a   Lee, Rita S F ^a   Peterson, A James ^a  

^a RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE; CYSTATIN; CYSTATIN M; EZRIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE; LEGUMAIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE KINASE; PEROXIREDOXIN 1; PURINE NUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHORYLASE; RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN; TAU INTERFERON; THIOREDOXIN; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 2; TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; EMBRYO; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; LUTEAL PHASE; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; UPREGULATION; UTERUS FLUID; UTERUS HORN;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE-2;

BOVINAE;

EID: 58449100796     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20931     Document Type: Article

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