Evidence for estrogen-dependent uterine serpin (SERPINA14) expression during estrus in the bovine endometrial glandular epithelium and lumen

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 795-805

  Ulbrich, Susanne E ^a   Frohiich, Thomas ^b   Schulke, Katy ^a   Englberger, Eva ^a   Waldschmitt, Nadine ^a   Arnold, Georg J ^b   Reichenbach, Horst Dieter ^c   Reichenbach, Myriam ^c   Wolf, Eckhard ^b   Meyer, Heinrich H D ^a   Bauersachs, Stefan ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bos taurus; Estrus; Preimplantation; SERPINAI4; Uterine milk protein; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; INTERFERON; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PLACENTA PROTEIN; PROGESTERONE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; TROPHOBLAST PROTEIN 1;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BREEDING; CATTLE; CELL CULTURE; COCULTURE; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; LUTEOLYSIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; INTERFERON TYPE I; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEOLYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROGESTERONE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SERPINS;

EID: 74049089088     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.075184     Document Type: Article

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