Fetal pulmonary immunoreactive adrenocorticotropin: Molecular weight and cellular localization

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 191-196

  Wood, Charles E ^a   Barkoe, David ^a   The, Angeline ^a   Newman, Howard ^a   Cudd, Timothy A ^a   Purinton, Scott ^a   Castro, Maria I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endocrinology; Epithelium; Neuroendocrine; Parturition; Prohormone processing

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS MUCOSA; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROPHORESIS; FETUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LUNG; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SHEEP;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0032570619     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-0115(98)00004-4     Document Type: Article

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