Is DNA methylation an epigenetic contribution to transcriptional regulation of the bovine endometrium during the estrous cycle and early pregnancy?

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 348, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 67-77

  Fürst, Rainer W ^a   Meyer, Heinrich H D ^a   Schweizer, Günther ^b   Ulbrich, Susanne E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endometrium; Epigenetics; Estrogen receptor alpha; Methylation sensitive high resolution melting (MS HRM); Pyrosequencing

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNMT1 GENE; DNMT3A GENE; DNMT3B GENE; ENDOMETRIUM; EPIGENETICS; ESR1 GENE; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEIFER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASES; ENDOMETRIUM; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 80755143421     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2011.07.032     Document Type: Article

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