Glucocorticoid effects in the human placenta: Evidence that dexamethasone-mediated inhibition of fibronectin expression in cytotrophoblasts involves a protein intermediate

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 632-637

  Yoon, Diana Y ^c   Ma, Yuehong ^a   Krikun, Graciela ^a   Lockwood, Charles J ^a   Lachapelle, Linda ^a   Guller, Seth ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; EPITOPE; FIBRONECTIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; FIBRONECTINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSORBENT TECHNIQUES; KINETICS; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 0031764972     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.83.2.632     Document Type: Article

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