Pit-1/growth hormone factor 1 splice variant expression in the rhesus monkey pituitary gland and the rhesus and human placenta

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 800-807

  Schanke, Judith T ^b   Conwell, Christine M ^b   Durning, Maureen ^b   Fisher, Jennifer M ^b,c   Golos, Thaddeus G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

8 BROMO CYCLIC AMP; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GROWTH HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHESUS MONKEY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PITUITARY GLAND; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RATS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT-1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031019977     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.82.3.800     Document Type: Article

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