Urocortin in human placenta and maternal plasma

Peptides

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 205-209

  Watanabe, Fumie ^a   Oki, Yutaka ^a   Ozawa, Megumi ^a   Masuzawa, Masahiro ^a   Iwabuchi, Masayasu ^a   Yoshimi, Teruya ^a   Nishiguchi, Tomizo ^a   Iino, Kazumi ^b   Sasano, Hironobu ^b  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing factor; MRNA; Placenta; Pregnancy; Urocortin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; UROCORTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; MALE; MATERNAL PLASMA; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST;

EID: 0032812858     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-9781(98)00175-2     Document Type: Article

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