Prostaglandins regulate conceptus elongation and mediate effects of interferon tau on the ovine uterine endometrium

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1119-1127

  Dorniak, Piotr ^a   Bazer, Fuller W ^a   Spencer, Thomas E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptus; Implantation; Interferon; Interferon Tau; Pregnancy; Progesterone; Progesterone receptor; Prostaglandins; Uterus

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 1; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1; MELOXICAM; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; SODIUM GLUCOSE COTRANSPORTER 1; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 1; TAU INTERFERON;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHELIUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; EWE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERUS CAVITY;

ANIMALS; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITORS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTERFERON TYPE I; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PROSTAGLANDIN ANTAGONISTS; PROSTAGLANDINS; SHEEP; THIAZINES; THIAZOLES;

MUS; OVIS;

EID: 79958210047     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.089979     Document Type: Article

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