Transcriptional profiling of equine endometrium during the time of maternal recognition of pregnancy

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 102-113

  Klein, Claudia ^a   Scoggin, Kirsten E ^a   Ealy, Alan D ^b   Troedsson, Mats H T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptus; Embryo maternal interaction; Estradiol receptor; Estrogen receptor; Gene regulation; Microarray; Pregnancy; Uterus

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; SECRETORY PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEAT SHOCK; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEOLYSIS; MARE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRITION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; ESTRUS CYCLE; HORSE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; VALIDATION STUDY;

EQUIDAE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HORSES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 77954212213     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.081612     Document Type: Article

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