Placental stress factors and maternal-fetal adaptive response: The corticotropin-releasing factor family

Endocrine

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 91-102

  Florio, Pasquale ^a   Severi, Filiberto M ^a   Ciarmela, Pasquapina ^a   Fiore, Giovina ^a   Calonaci, Giulia ^a   Merola, Angelica ^a   De Felice, Claudio ^a   Palumbo, Marco ^b   Petraglia, Felice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adrenocorticotropic hormone; Corticotropin releasing factor; Parturition; Preeclampsia; Syncytrotrophoblast; Urocortin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

AMNION; ARTICLE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FLUID BALANCE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE METABOLISM; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIFESTYLE; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; MYOMETRIUM; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STRESS; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY;

EID: 0036822345     PISSN: 1355008X     EISSN: 15590100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/ENDO:19:1:91     Document Type: Article

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