The placenta as a neuroendocrine organ

Frontiers of Hormone Research

Volumn 27, Issue , 2001, Pages 216-228

  Reis, Fernando M ^a   Petraglia, Felice ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMUS HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEUROSECRETION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROPEPTIDES; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PITUITARY HORMONES; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM;

EID: 0035237726     PISSN: 03013073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000061028     Document Type: Article

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