The human placenta and fetal membranes express the corticotropin- releasing hormone receptor 1α (CRH-1α) and the CRH-C variant receptor

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1376-1379

  Karteris, E ^a   Grammatopoulos, D ^a   Dai, Y ^a   Olah, K B ^b   Ghobara, T B ^b   Easton, A ^a   Hillhouse, E W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b WARWICK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; IODINE 125; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ARTICLE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; DNA SEQUENCE; FETUS; FETUS MEMBRANE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST;

EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031762903     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.83.4.1376     Document Type: Article

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