Acute involution in the tammar wallaby: Identification of genes and putative novel milk proteins implicated in mammary gland function

Genomics

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 372-378

  Khalil, Elie ^a,b   Digby, Matthew Robert ^a   Thomson, Peter Campbell ^c   Lefèvre, Christophe ^a,b,c,d   Mailer, Sonia Louise ^a   Pooley, Cate ^a,b   Nicholas, Kevin Roy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Involution; Mammary gland; Marsupials; Microarray

Indexed keywords

ABP1 GENE; ALDOA GENE; ANXA1 GENE; APLP2 GENE; ARPC3 GENE; ARTICLE; ASAH1 GENE; ATP6V1B1 GENE; C15ORF15 GENE; C1ORF93 GENE; C1QB GENE; C4A GENE; CAMP GENE; CCT6A GENE; CD9 GENE; CDR2L GENE; CLU GENE; COL18A1 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CSF2RB GENE; CSF2RBETA GENE; CSRP1 GENE; CTSK GENE; CTSL GENE; DOWN REGULATION; EFS GENE; EIF2S3 GENE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FRAT1 GENE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GLRX GENE; GLUL GENE; GPX1 GENE; H3F3B GENE; HSP90AB1 GENE; INVOLUTION; ITGA9 GENE; IVNS1ABP GENE; KIAA1718 GENE; LAMC3 GENE; LAPTM5 GENE; LF GENE; MACROPUS EUGENII; MAMMARY GLAND; MARSUPIAL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NPM GENE; OXCT1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSMA6 GENE; PSMB8 GENE; RPS3 GENE; SERPING1 GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCS3 GENE; SOD3 GENE; TMSB4X GENE; TNFRSF21; TNFRSF21 GENE; TPT1 GENE; UPREGULATION; XPC GENE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; CATTLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOGENETIC PROCESSES; MACROPODIDAE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MICE; MILK PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION;

EUTHERIA; MACROPUS EUGENII; METATHERIA;

EID: 79957521366     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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