Uterine expression of cp4 gene homolog in the stripe-faced Dunnart, Sminthopsis macroura: Relationship with conceptus development and progesterone profile

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 863-872

  Menkhorst, E ^a,b   Selwood, L ^a   Cui, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAT PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN SM CP4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORMONAL REGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUTEAL PHASE; MARSUPIAL; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SMINTHOPSIS MACROURA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EGG PROTEINS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MARSUPIALIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UTERUS;

METATHERIA; PHALANGERIDAE; SMINTHOPSIS MACROURA;

EID: 67650825897     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.21053     Document Type: Article

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