Endometritis and In Vitro PGE₂ Challenge Modify Properties of Cattle Endometrial Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Their Transcriptomic Profile

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Representative images of the morphology and in vitro colony formation of the primary cell cultures derived from bovine endometrial tissue of a healthy animal (a, d, g) with subclinical endometritis (b, e, h) or clinical endometritis (c, f, i). (a, b, c) Normal fibroblast-like appearance at 40x. (d, e, f) Giemsa stain at 40x. (g, h, i) Alkaline phosphatase activity in a colony at 100x.

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