Anandamide Levels Fluctuate in the Bovine Oviduct during the Oestrous Cycle

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Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Gervasi, Maria Gracia ^a   Marczylo, Timothy H ^b   Lam, Patricia M ^b   Rana, Shashi ^b   Franchi, Ana M ^a   Konje, Justin C ^b   Perez Martinez, Silvina ^a  

^a Centre de Estudios Farmacologicos y Botanicos   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANANDAMIDE; HORMONE; N OLEOYLETHANOLAMINE; PALMIDROL; AMIDASE; AMIDE; ARACHIDONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ENDOCANNABINOID; ETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; FATTY-ACID AMIDE HYDROLASE; MESSENGER RNA; N-ACYLETHANOLAMINES; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHOLIPASE D;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; EPITHELIUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; OVIDUCT; OVIDUCTAL FLUID; OVULATION; PERIOVULATORY PERIOD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BOVINAE; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; OVARY FOLLICLE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; ANIMALS; ARACHIDONIC ACIDS; BODY FLUIDS; CATTLE; ENDOCANNABINOIDS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESTROUS CYCLE; ETHANOLAMINES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVIDUCTS; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINES; PHOSPHOLIPASE D; POLYUNSATURATED ALKAMIDES; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84881607274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072521     Document Type: Article

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