The endometrium responds differently to cloned versus fertilized embryos

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 5681-5686

  Bauersachs, Stefan ^a   Ulbrich, Susanne E ^b   Zakhartchenko, Valeri ^a   Minten, Megan ^c   Reichenbach, Myriam ^a   Reichenbach, Horst Dieter ^d   Blum, Helmut ^a   Spencer, Thomas E ^c   Wolf, Eckhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Institut fuer Tierzucht   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bos taurus; Cloning; Early pregnancy; Gene expression; Microarray

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; EMBRYO; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; UTERINE TUBE MUCOSA;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL LINE; CLONING, ORGANISM; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RNA, MESSENGER;

BOS; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 65249152483     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811841106     Document Type: Article

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