Functional role of arginine during the peri-implantation period of pregnancy. I. Consequences of loss of function of arginine transporter SLC7A1 mRNA in ovine conceptus trophectoderm

FASEB Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2852-2863

  Wang, Xiaoqiu ^a   Frank, James W ^b   Little, Danielle R ^a   Dunlap, Kathrin A ^a   Satterfield, M Carey ^a   Burghardt, Robert C ^a   Hansen, Thomas R ^c   Wu, Guoyao ^a   Bazer, Fuller W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Morpholino; Sheep

Indexed keywords

AGMATINASE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; ARGININE; ARGININE DECARBOXYLASE; CARBOXYLYASE; CITRULLINE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MESSENGER RNA; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ORNITHINE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; POLYAMINE; PROTEIN; SLC7A1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONCEPTUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC AND PLACENTAL STRUCTURES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE SILENCING; IN VIVO STUDY; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PERI IMPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SHEEP; SLC7A1 GENE; SURVIVAL;

DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOLINO; SHEEP;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ARGININE; CATIONIC AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 1; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; POLYAMINES; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; UTERUS;

EID: 84903695619     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.13-248757     Document Type: Article

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