Hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing hormone expression in the baboon fetus at mid- and late gestation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 559-566

  Davies, William A ^a   Albrecht, Eugene D ^b   Pepe, Gerald J ^a  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ANIMALIA; PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS;

EID: 0029841181     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod55.3.559     Document Type: Article

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