Endometrial corticotropin-releasing hormone. Its potential autocrine and paracrine actions

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 828, Issue , 1997, Pages 84-94

  Zoumakis, Emmanouel ^a   Makrigiannakis, Antonis ^a   Margioris, Andrew N ^a   Stournaras, Christos ^a   Gravanis, Achille ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP; DEXAMETHASONE; DNA FRAGMENT; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; ESTRADIOL; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; LUCIFERASE; MIFEPRISTONE; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2;

BLASTOCYST; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECIDUALIZATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DOSE RESPONSE; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION;

EID: 0030830531     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48525.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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