Dietary n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation alters the expression of genes involved in the control of fertility in the bovine uterine endometrium

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 44, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 878-888

  Waters, Sinéad M ^a   Coyne, Gerard S ^a,b   Kenny, David A ^a,b   Machugh, David E ^b   Morris, Dermot G ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cattle; Microarray; PUFA; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; PALMITIC ACID; PROSTAGLANDIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; ENDOMETRIUM; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FEMALE; FERTILITY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE;

EID: 84866501140     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00065.2011     Document Type: Article

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