Effect of elevated circulating progesterone concentration on bovine blastocyst development and global transcriptome following endoscopic transfer of in vitro produced embryos to the bovine oviduct

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 707-719

  Carter, F ^a   Rings, F ^b   Mamo, S ^a   Holker, M ^b   Kuzmany, A ^c   Besenfelder, U ^c   Havlicek, V ^c   Mehta, J P ^a   Tesfaye, D ^b   Schellander, K ^b   Lonergan, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Embryo; In vitro fertilization; Pregnancy; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; COW; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEIFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ZYGOTE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OVIDUCTS; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 77958599035     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.082354     Document Type: Article

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