Endometrial gene expression during early pregnancy differs between fertile and subfertile dairy cow strains

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-58

  Walker, Caroline G ^a,b   Littlejohn, Mathew D ^a   Mitchell, Murray D ^b,c   Roche, John R ^a   Meier, Susanne ^a  

^a DAIRYNZ   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Pregnancy recognition and maintenance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO GROWTH; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LACTATION; LUTEOLYSIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

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EID: 84855998082     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00254.2010     Document Type: Article

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