The equine endometrial cup reaction: a fetomaternal signal of significance

• Published in: Annual review of animal biosciences Vol. 1; p. 419
• Main Authors: Antczak, D F, de Mestre, Amanda M, Wilsher, Sandra, Allen, W R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.01.2013
• Subjects: Animals; Chorion; Endometrium - physiology; Female; Horses - physiology; Maternal-Fetal Relations - physiology; Pregnancy; Trophoblasts; horse; placenta; development; trophoblast; immunology; pregnancy

A remarkable feature of equine pregnancy is the development of the invasive trophoblast of the chorionic girdle and its formation of the gonadotrophin-secreting endometrial cup cells in early gestation. The details of this process have been revealed only slowly over the past century, since the first...