Sex steroid receptors and human parturition

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 918-924

  Rezapour, Masoumeh ^a   Bäckström, Torbjörn ^b   Lindblom, Bo ^b   Ulmsten, Ulf ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; OXYTOCIN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABOR; MYOMETRIUM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY;

ADULT; DECIDUA; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MYOMETRIUM; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE;

EID: 0343052666     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(97)00116-6     Document Type: Article

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