Bovine pretransfer endometrium and embryo transcriptome fingerprints as predictors of pregnancy success after embryo transfer

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 201-218

  Salilew Wondim, Dessie ^a   Hölker, Michael ^a   Rings, Franca ^a   Ghanem, Nasser ^a   Ulas Cinar, Mehmet ^a   Peippo, Jaana ^b   Tholen, Ernst ^a   Looft, Christian ^a   Schellander, Karl ^a   Tesfaye, Dawit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ARL8B PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; DFNB31 PROTEIN; DYSBINDIN; SPAG17 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; UBE2D3P PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DELIVERY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BOVINAE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE;

EID: 77955450328     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00047.2010     Document Type: Article

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