Lack of gestation-related changes of urocortin gene expression in human placenta

Prenatal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 296-300

  Florio, P ^a   Rivest, S ^b   Reis, F M ^c   Simoncini, T ^a   Martinelli, P ^d   Genazzani, A R ^a   Petraglia, F ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^e Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

mRNA; Placenta; Trophoblast; Urocortin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; UROCORTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN RELEASE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY;

EID: 0032739807     PISSN: 13598635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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