Corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRH) interacts with inflammatory prostaglandins and interleukins and affects the decidualization of human endometrial stroma

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 344-351

  Zoumakis, E ^a   Margioris, A N ^a   Stournaras, C ^a   Dermitzaki, E ^a   Angelakis, E ^a   Makrigiannakis, A ^a   Koumantakis, E ^a   Gravanis, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Corticotrophin releasing hormone; Decidualization; Human endometrium; Interleukins; Prostaglandin E2

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CYTOKERATIN; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; NEUROPEPTIDE; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; PROSTAGLANDIN; PROSTAGLANDIN E2;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL ISOLATION; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; DECIDUALIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; HYSTERECTOMY; INFLAMMATION; LUTEOLYSIS; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROMA CELL;

EID: 0034063977     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/6.4.344     Document Type: Article

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