Apoptosis in the Uterotubal Junction and Oviductal Isthmus during the Estrous Cycle of the Bitch

Anatomical Record

Volumn 294, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 342-348

  Urhausen, C ^a   Beineke, A ^a   Piechotta, M ^a   Karre, I ^a   Beyerbach, M ^a   Gunzel Apel A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Isthmus; Oviduct; Sperm reservoir; Uterotubal junction

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BITCH; CELL MATURATION; DOG; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FOLLICULAR PHASE; LUTEAL PHASE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY CYCLE; OVIDUCT; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DOGS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESTRUS; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; LUTEAL PHASE; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; OVIDUCTS; OVULATION;

CANIDAE;

EID: 78651461208     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21300     Document Type: Article

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