Functional capacity of fetal zone cells of the baboon fetal adrenal gland: A major source of α-inhibin

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 142-146

  Billiar, Reinhart B ^a,b   Leavitt, Maria G ^a   Smith, Patricia ^b   Albrecht, Eugene D ^c   Pepe, Gerald J ^a  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; INHIBIN A; MESSENGER RNA;

ADRENAL CORTEX FUNCTION; ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABOON; CELL FUNCTION; FETUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; BETAMETHASONE; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBINS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PAPIO; PEPTIDES; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0033023287     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod61.1.142     Document Type: Article

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