Interconversion of cortisol and cortisone in the baboon placenta at midgestation: Expression of 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 messenger RNA

Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 403-410

  Pepe, Gerald J ^a   Waddell, Brendan J ^b   Burch, Marcia G ^a   Albrecht, Eugene D ^c  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; CORTISONE; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABOON; CHORION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS;

EID: 0030199494     PISSN: 09600760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0960-0760(96)00049-0     Document Type: Article

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