Trans-acting factors dictate the species-specific placental expression of corticotropin-releasing factor genes in choriocarcinoma cell lines

Endocrinology

Volumn 137, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 3000-3008

  Scatena, Caroline D ^b   Adler, Stuart ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TROPHOBLAST;

EID: 0030013476     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.137.7.8770924     Document Type: Article

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