Prolactin-like protein-C variant: Complementary deoxyribonucleic acid, unique six exon gene structure, and trophoblast cell-specific expression

Endocrinology

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 5009-5019

  Dai, Guoli ^a   Liu, Bing ^a   Szpirer, Claude ^b   Levan, Goran ^c   Kwok, Simon C M ^d   Soares, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROTEIN C;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 17; GENE; GENE LOCATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029852465     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.137.11.8895375     Document Type: Article

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