Gene expression profiling of bovine peripartal placentomes: Detection of molecular pathways potentially involved in the release of foetal membranes

Reproduction

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 85-105

  Streyl, Dominik ^a   Kenngott, Rebecca ^a   Herbach, Nadja ^a   Wanke, Rüdiger ^a   Blum, Helmut ^a   Sinowatz, Fred ^a   Wolf, Eckhard ^a   Zerbe, Holm ^a   Bauersachs, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD14 ANTIGEN; CXCL2 CHEMOKINE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE 3; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 5; MESSENGER RNA; PENTRAXIN 3; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOGENETICS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FETUS; FETUS MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTRAPARTUM CARE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RANDOMIZATION; RNA EXTRACTION; STEREOLOGY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CATTLE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, MHC CLASS II; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PARTURITION; PLACENTA; PLACENTA, RETAINED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

BOVINAE;

EID: 84855651228     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-11-0204     Document Type: Article

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