Effect of maternal obesity on estrous cyclicity, embryo development and blastocyst gene expression in a mouse model

Human Reproduction

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3513-3522

  Bermejo Alvarez, Pablo ^a   Rosenfeld, Cheryl S ^a   Roberts, R Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

body mass; embryo development; gene expression; high fat diet; menstrual cycle

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1; HORMONE; HORMONE RECEPTOR; INSULIN; LEPTIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID DIET; MALE; MATERNAL OBESITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OVARY FUNCTION; OVULATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO;

EID: 84869995999     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/des327     Document Type: Article

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