Follicular determinants of pregnancy establishment and maintenance

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 349, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 649-664

  Pohler, Ky G ^a   Geary, Thomas W ^b   Atkins, Jacqueline A ^a   Perry, George A ^c   Jinks, Emma M ^a   Smith, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cattle; Estradiol; Follicle; Oocyte; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 15; CULLIN; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE;

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; GAMETE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; GENOME IMPRINTING; GERMINAL VESICLE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIFESPAN; LUTEINIZATION; LUTEOLYSIS; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; RNA SYNTHESIS; SURVIVAL FACTOR; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PREGNANCY;

BOS;

EID: 84866393222     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-012-1386-8     Document Type: Review

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