Effect of maternal fatness on fetal steroids and semi-quantitative real-time PCR expression of receptor genes in sheep

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 116, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 58-64

  Alexander, Brenda M ^a   Singh, Priyanka ^a   Austin, Kathy J ^a   Cockrum, Rebecca R ^a   Cammack, Kristi M ^a   Hess, Bret W ^a   Moss, Gary E ^a   Nathanielsz, Peter W ^a,b   Ford, Stephen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal steroid receptor gene expression; Sexual differentiation; Sheep dam obesity

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FETUS; GENETICS; MALE; OBESITY; PARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; FETUS; MALE; OBESITY; PARITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; WEIGHT GAIN;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 69049090857     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2008.12.009     Document Type: Article

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