MicroRNAome of porcine conceptuses and trophoblasts: Expression profile of microRNAs and their potential to regulate genes crucial for establishment of pregnancy

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Krawczynski, Kamil ^a   Najmula, Joanna ^a   Bauersachs, Stefan ^b,c   Kaczmarek, Monika M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL REPRODUCTION AND FOOD RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conceptus; Implantation; Maternal recognition of pregnancy; miRNA; Pig

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; DICER; DROSHA PROTEIN; EXPORTIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; MICRORNA 125B; MICRORNA 26A; PROTEIN; TARBP2 PROTEIN; TNRC6A PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; VASCULOTROPIN; MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXOSOME; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE TARGETING; IN VITRO STUDY; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TROPHOBLAST; ANIMAL; BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG;

MAMMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICRORNAS; PREGNANCY; SWINE; TRANSCRIPTOME; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 84930354451     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.114.123588     Document Type: Article

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