Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 3 , Pages 168-177 , March 2010

Enhanced proapoptotic gene expression of XAF1, CASP8 and TNFSF10 in the bovine endometrium during early pregnancy is not correlated with augmented apoptosis

  • A.E. Groebner

      Affiliations

    • Physiology-Weihenstephan, Z I E L Research Center for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Technische Universität München, Weihenstephaner Berg 3, 85354 Freising, Germany
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  • K. Schulke

      Affiliations

    • Physiology-Weihenstephan, Z I E L Research Center for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Technische Universität München, Weihenstephaner Berg 3, 85354 Freising, Germany
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  • S. Unterseer

      Affiliations

    • Physiology-Weihenstephan, Z I E L Research Center for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Technische Universität München, Weihenstephaner Berg 3, 85354 Freising, Germany
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  • H.D. Reichenbach

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Animal Breeding, Bavarian State Institute for Agriculture, Prof.-Duerrwaechter-Platz 1, 85586 Grub, Germany
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  • M. Reichenbach

      Affiliations

    • Chair for Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology, and Laboratory for Functional Genome Analysis (LAFUGA), Gene Center, LMU Munich, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25, 81377 Munich, Germany
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  • M. Büttner

      Affiliations

    • Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Veterinärstraße 2, 85764 Oberschleißheim, Germany
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  • E. Wolf

      Affiliations

    • Chair for Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology, and Laboratory for Functional Genome Analysis (LAFUGA), Gene Center, LMU Munich, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25, 81377 Munich, Germany
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  • H.H.D. Meyer

      Affiliations

    • Physiology-Weihenstephan, Z I E L Research Center for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Technische Universität München, Weihenstephaner Berg 3, 85354 Freising, Germany
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  • S.E. Ulbrich

      Affiliations

    • Physiology-Weihenstephan, Z I E L Research Center for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Technische Universität München, Weihenstephaner Berg 3, 85354 Freising, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 8161 71 4429; fax: +49 8161 71 4204.

,Accepted 16 December 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2009.12.017

Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 3 , Pages 168-177 , March 2010

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