The objective of this study was to determine whether bovine embryos become more resistant to deleterious effects of maternal heat stress as early embryonic development progresses. Superovulated,… (More)
Continuous cultures of bovine trophectoderm (CT-1 and CT-5) and bovine endoderm (CE-1 and CE-2) were initiated and maintained on STO feeder cells. CT-1 and CT-5 were derived from the culture of… (More)
Experiments were conducted to determine whether or not glutathione (GSH) is involved in thermotolerance responses of murine morulae. In the first experiment, morulae were exposed to either… (More)
Four experiments were performed to determine whether cooling cows during final maturation of oocytes and early embryonic development or injection of vitamin E at AI prevented adverse effects of heat… (More)
Establishment and maintenance of pregnancy are critically dependent on embryo-maternal communication during the preimplantation period. To gain new insights into this complex process in the horse,… (More)
Development of the preimplantation embryo is very susceptible to disruption by heat shock. As embryos proceed through development, they acquire resistance to heat shock, perhaps because they become… (More)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
1998
Expression of the multiple interferon-tau (IFN-tau) genes is restricted to embryonic trophectoderm of ruminant ungulate species for a few days in early pregnancy. The promoter regions of these genes… (More)
Pregnancy-associated glycoproteins (PAG) are structurally related to aspartic proteinases and belong to an extensive, rapidly evolving family of recently duplicated genes expressed in the placentas… (More)
Multiple interferon (IFN)-tau genes exist in cattle, but it has remained unclear how many are expressed, the extent of their variation, and whether different genes exhibit similar patterns of… (More)
The overall goal was to describe the importance of fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) during development of the bovine embryo. An inhibitor of FGF receptor kinase activity (SU5402) was used to examine… (More)