Conceptus-induced changes in the endometrial transcriptome: How soon does the cow know she is pregnant?

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 144-156

  Forde, N ^a   Carter, F ^a   Spencer, T E ^b   Bazer, F W ^b   Sandra, O ^c   Mansouri Attia, N ^a   Okumu, L A ^a   McGettigan, P A ^a   Mehta, J P ^a   McBride, R ^a   O'Gaora, P ^a   Roche, J F ^a   Lonergan, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

Bovine; Female reproductive tract; Gene expression; Interferon tau; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 4E; RECOMBINANT INTERFERON; TAU INTERFERON; TRANSCRIPTOME;

2',5' OLIGOADENYLATE SYNTHETASE 1 GENE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW STROMAL CELL ANTIGEN 2 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEIFER; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERFERON INDUCED PROTEIN 44 GENE; INTERFERON INDUCED PROTEIN WITH TETRATRICOPEPTIDE REPEAT 2 GENE; INTERFERON STIMULATED EXONUCLEASE GENE 20; ISG15 GENE; MYXOVIRUS RESISTANCE 2 GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICAL S ADENOSYL METHIONINE DOMAIN CONTAINING 2 GENE; STERILE ALPHA MOTIF DOMAIN CONTAINING 9 GENE; UBIQUITIN SPECIFIC PEPTIDASE 18 GENE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTERFERON TYPE I; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL;

BOVINAE; OVIS;

EID: 79960134766     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.090019     Document Type: Article

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