Expression of progesterone receptor isoforms in corpora lutea of human subjects: Correlation with serum oestrogen and progesterone concentrations

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1045-1052

  Misao, Ryou ^a   Nakanishi, Yoshihito ^a   Iwagaki, Shigenori ^a   Fujimoto, Jiro ^a   Tamaya, Teruhiko ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corpus luteum; MRNA; Oestrogen; Progesterone; Progesterone receptor forms A and B

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; STEROID HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORPUS LUTEUM FUNCTION; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADULT; CORPUS LUTEUM; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0031795549     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/4.11.1045     Document Type: Article

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