Prolactin gene expression and prolactin protein in premenopausal postmenopausal human ovaries

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 696-701

  Schwärzler, Peter ^a,b   Dirnhofer, Stephan ^a,c   Untergasser, Gerold ^a   Abendstein, Burghard ^a   Hermann, Martin ^a   Berger, Peter ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b Department of Obstetrics ^*  (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Eutopic production; Human ovary; Prolactin; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPIC HORMONE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY; LUNG; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN SYNTHESIS; REPRODUCTION;

ADULT; CYTOSOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; OVARY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PROLACTIN; RECEPTORS, PROLACTIN;

EID: 0343145740     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)00320-8     Document Type: Article

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