Immune aspects of embryo-maternal cross-talk in the bovine uterus

Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 20-26

  Bauersachs, Stefan ^a   Wolf, Eckhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bostaurus; IFNA; IFNT; Microarray; RNA Seq

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; COW; EMBRYO MEMBRANE; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE;

EID: 84874539730     PISSN: 01650378     EISSN: 18727603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jri.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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