Expression of human relaxin genes: Characterization of a novel alternatively-spliced human relaxin mRNA species

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 85-94

  Gunnersen, Jenny M ^a   Fu, Ping ^a   Roche, Peter J ^a   Tregear, Geoffrey W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Gene structure; Human; mRNA; Relaxin

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RELAXIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CORPUS LUTEUM; DECIDUA; EXON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA STRUCTURE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0029928718     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0303-7207(96)03770-7     Document Type: Article

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