Biology of the relaxin-like factor (RLF)

Reviews of Reproduction

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 133-138

  Ivell, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; RELAXIN; SOMATOMEDIN;

BIOLOGY; CATTLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SHORT SURVEY; TESTIS; THECA CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARY; PREGNANCY; PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; TESTIS;

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030808589     PISSN: 13596004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/ror.0.0020133     Document Type: Short Survey

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