The expression of leptin and its receptor during different physiological stages in the bovine ovary

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 174-181

  Sarkar, M ^a,b   Schilffarth, Stefanie ^a   Schams, Dieter ^a   Meyer, Heinrich H D ^a   Berisha, Bajram ^a,c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INDIAN VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRISHTINA   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; CORPUS LUTEUM FUNCTION; COW; DOWN REGULATION; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; LUTEINIZATION; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; AUTOCRINE COMMUNICATION; CATTLE; CORPUS LUTEUM; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LEPTIN; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN;

BOS; BOVINAE;

EID: 73249119997     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.21129     Document Type: Article

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