Figure 1.

Effect of semen components on endometrial explant gene expression. Intact endometrial explant expression of CSF2, IL6, CXCL8, IL17A, TGFB1, IFNE, PTGS2, AKR1C4 OXTR, and IL1B in response to seminal plasma (SP; 2%, 5%, 10%, 20%), 5% whole semen (SM), 5% semen cell pellet (CP), or vehicle medium alone (Veh) after 24 h. Data are presented as the mean relative expression + SEM. from six independent experiments using explants from six individual cows. Data were log transformed and analyzed using the generalized linear mixed model with pairwise comparisons only made with vehicle treated control. *, P value of ≤ 0.05.