Effect of the metabolic environment at key stages of follicle development in cattle: Focus on steroid biosynthesis

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 504-517

  Walsh, S W ^a   Mehta, J P ^a   McGettigan, P A ^a   Browne, J A ^a   Forde, N ^a   Alibrahim, R M ^a   Mulligan, F J ^a   Loftus, B ^a   Crowe, M A ^a   Matthews, D ^a,b   Diskin, M ^b   Mihm, M ^c   Evans, A C O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b ANIMAL AND GRASSLAND RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Granulosa cells; Ovary; RNA sequencing; Theca cells

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CIDR; CLOPROSTENOL; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEIFER; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEINIZATION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEROIDOGENESIS;

3-HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CATTLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; ESTRADIOL; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR FLUID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LACTATION; LUTEINIZATION; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROGESTERONE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84862152104     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00178.2011     Document Type: Article

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