Is FAS/Fas ligand system involved in equine corpus luteum functional regression?

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 901-908

  Galvao, Antonio M ^a,b   Ramilo, David W ^a   Skarzynski, Dariusz J ^b   Lukasik, Karolina ^b   Tramontano, Angela ^c   Mollo, Antonio ^c   Mateus, Luisa M ^a   Ferreira Dias, Graca Maria L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL REPRODUCTION AND FOOD RESEARCH   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Corpus luteum function; Cytokines; FAS; Fas ligand; Luteolysis; Mare

Indexed keywords

FAS ANTIGEN; FAS LIGAND; GAMMA INTERFERON; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HORSE; IN VITRO STUDY; LUTEAL CELL; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE RELEASE; PROSTAGLANDIN RELEASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CORPUS LUTEUM; DINOPROST; DINOPROSTONE; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORSES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERFERON-GAMMA; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEOLYSIS; PROGESTERONE; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 78649980800     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.084699     Document Type: Article

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