Major secretory product of the mesometrial decidua in the rat, a variant of alpha-2-macroglobulin, binds insulin-like growth factor I via a protease-dependent mechanism

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 103-110

  Correia Da Selva, C ^a   Teixeira, N ^a   Bell, S C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alpha 1 macroglobulin; Alpha 2 macroglobulin; Binding proteins; Decidua; Insulin like growth factors; Placenta; Pregnancy; Rat

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 MACROGLOBULIN; BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; DECIDUA; ENZYME INHIBITION; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT;

ALPHA-MACROGLOBULINS; ANIMALS; DECIDUA; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LIVER; MALE; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED ALPHA 2-MACROGLOBULINS; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0029937788     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2795(199605)44:1<103::aid-mrd12>3.0.co;2-5     Document Type: Article

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