Global endometrial transcriptomic profiling: Transient immune activation precedes tissue proliferation and repair in healthy beef cows

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Foley, Cathriona ^a,b   Chapwanya, Aspinas ^b,c   Creevey, Christopher J ^a   Narciandi, Fernando ^b   Morris, Derek ^b   Kenny, Elaine M ^b   Cormican, Paul ^b   Callanan, John J ^d   O'Farrelly, Cliona ^b   Meade, Kieran G ^a  

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

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Endometrial biopsy; Immune response; Next generation sequencing; Transcriptome; Uterine involution

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOKINE; CYTOKINE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GATA2 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; IGF1 GENE; IMMUNE ACTIVATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PUERPERIUM; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SAA1 GENE; SAA2 GENE; SCH2 GENE; SERPINA14 GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE REPAIR; TRANSCRIPTOMIC PROFILING; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84866302812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-489     Document Type: Article

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