Expression of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)/luteinizing hormone receptors and regulation of the cyclooxygenase-1 gene by exogenous hCG in human fetal membranes

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1283-1288

  Toth, P ^a,c   Li, X ^a   Lei, Z M ^a   Rao, Ch V ^a,b  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

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

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME REGULATION; FETUS; FETUS MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MEMBRANE BINDING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES; RECEPTORS, LH; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SWINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029917190     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.3.1283     Document Type: Article

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