Differential gene expression in the endometrium on gestation day 12 provides insight into sow prolificacy

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Hao ^a   Wang, Shouqi ^a   Liu, Manqing ^a   Zhang, Ailing ^a   Wu, Zhenfang ^a   Zhang, Zhe ^a   Li, Jiaqi ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTATIN C; MESSENGER RNA; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PHOSPHOLIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN; PROSTAGLANDIN E SYNTHASE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN 4; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; CYSTATIN C GENE; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; GESTATION PERIOD; GROWTH RATE; LITTER SIZE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE GENE; PARITY; PHOSPHOLIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN GENE; PREGNANCY; PROSTAGLANDIN E SYNTHASE GENE; PTGS2 GENE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN 4 GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOW (SWINE); SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1 GENE;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LITTER SIZE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REPRODUCTION; SWINE;

PIERIS BRASSICAE; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 84872433211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-45     Document Type: Article

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