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Project

Maternal recognition of pregnancy in the horse: are miRNAs the secret messengers?
Code
3E008513
Duration
01 October 2013 → 14 August 2020
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Animal biology
    • Genetics
  • Agricultural and food sciences
    • Veterinary medicine
    • Other veterinary sciences
    • Other agricultural and food sciences
Keywords
horse systems biology pregnancy
 
Project description
 

The concept ‘maternal recognition of pregnancy’ (MRP) refers to the physiological events leading to the maintenance of gestation. In the horse, the signal for MRP remains a big mystery, despite several decades of elaborate research. Our general objective is to unravel embryo-maternal communication in the horse through a holistic approach using high-throughput systems biology (transcriptomics-miRNomics-proteomics).