Leptin receptor transcripts are constitutively expressed in placenta and adipose tissue with advancing baboon pregnancy

Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 223, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 362-366

  Green, Amy E ^a   O'Neil, Jennifer S ^a   Swan, Kenneth F ^a   Bohm Jr , Rudolf P ^b   Ratterree, Marion S ^b   Henson, Michael C ^a,b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; LEPTIN RECEPTOR;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABOON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; DECIDUA; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALIA; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PAPIO SP.; PRIMATES;

EID: 0034113850     PISSN: 00379727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1373.2000.22351.x     Document Type: Article

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