Tissue-specific and ontogenetic regulation of LIF protein levels determined by quantitative enzyme immunoassay

Growth Factors

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 279-295

  Fukada, Keiko ^a   Korsching, Sigrun ^b   Towle, Marie F ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Leukemia inhibitory factor; LIF level; LIF localization; LIF protein; Site of LIF synthesis; Two site immunoassay

Indexed keywords

LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GANGLION; INTESTINE; LUNG; MALE; METESTRUS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; OVARY; PANCREAS; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN; THYMUS; UTERUS;

EID: 0030787173     PISSN: 08977194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08977199709021526     Document Type: Article

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