Avery C Kramer

TL;DR: The establishment of pregnancy in sheep includes elongation of the blastocyst into a filamentous conceptus, pregnancy recognition, production of histotroph, attachment of the conceptus to the endometrium for implantation, and development of synepitheliochorial placentation.

TL;DR: The expression of glucose and fructose transporters are precisely regulated in a spatial-temporal pattern along the uterine-placental interface of pigs to maximize hexose sugar transport to the pig conceptus/placenta.

TL;DR: The results provide new insights into the immunology of implantation to suggest that trophectoderm cells of pigs secrete IFNG to recruit various subpopulations of T cells to the endometrium to contribute to a controlled inflammatory environment that supports the active breakdown and restructuring of theendometrium in response to implantation of the conceptus.

TL;DR: In this paper, cell-specific expression of enzymes required for serine biosynthesis, one-carbon metabolism and glutaminolysis at the uterine-placental interface of sheep and pigs is described.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that dietary supplementation with larginine (Arg) to gilts between days 14 and 25 of gestation enhances embryonic survival and vascular development in placentae; however, the underlying mechanisms are largely unknown.