Endometrial corticotropin-releasing hormone: Expression, regulation, and potential physiological implications

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 816, Issue , 1997, Pages 116-128

  Makrigiannakis, A ^a   Psychoyos, A ^b   Zoumakis, E ^a   Margioris, A N ^a   Stournaras, C ^a   Gravanis, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ESTROGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID; MESSENGER RNA; PROSTAGLANDIN E2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECIDUA; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOTHALAMUS; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; RAT; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030740003     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb52135.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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