Rat placental lactogen II gene: Characterization of gene structure and placental-specific expression

Endocrinology

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 967-973

  Shah, Paresh ^a   Sun, Yuxiang ^a   Szpirer, Claude ^b   Duckworth, Mary Lynn ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACENTA LACTOGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0031768321     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.139.3.5838     Document Type: Article

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