Expression of prostacyclin and thromboxane synthases in placenta and placental bed after pre-eclamptic pregnancies

Placenta

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 573-581

  Wetzka, B ^a,c   Charnock Jones, D S ^a   Viville, B ^a   Cooper, J C ^a   Nusing R ^b   Zahradnik, H P ^c   Smith, S K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROSTACYCLIN; PROSTACYCLIN SYNTHASE; THROMBOXANE; THROMBOXANE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MACROPHAGE; PLACENTA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHOBLAST;

EID: 0029808952     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0143-4004(96)80074-9     Document Type: Article

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