Human placenta and fetal membranes express human urocortin mRNA and peptide

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3807-3810

  Petraglia, Felice ^a   Florio, Pasquale ^b   Gallo, Rosita ^b   Simoncini, Tommaso ^b   Saviozzi, Michela ^b   Di Blasio, Anna M ^c   Vaughan, Joan ^d   Vale, Wyie ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CHROMOSOME 2; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMNION; CHORION; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DECIDUA; DNA PRIMERS; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029819290     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.10.3807     Document Type: Article

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