Oviduct-embryo interactions in cattle: Two-way traffic or a one-way street?

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Maillo, Veronica ^a   Gaora, Peadar Ó ^b   Forde, Niamh ^b   Besenfelder, Urban ^c   Havlicek, Vitezslav ^c   Burns, Gregory W ^d   Spencer, Thomas E ^d   Gutierrez Adan, Alfonso ^a   Lonergan, Patrick ^b   Rizos, Dimitrios ^a  

^a INIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bovine; Embryo maternal interaction; Microarray; Oviduct; RNASeq

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BOVINE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; CYTOKINESIS; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYO TRANSFER; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEIFER; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; ZYGOTE; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; TISSUE MICROARRAY;

BOS; BOVINAE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; OVIDUCTS; PREGNANCY; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84936939754     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.115.127969     Document Type: Article

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