Identification of a new aspartic proteinase expressed by the outer chorionic cell layer of the equine placenta

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1069-1077

  Green, Jonathan A ^a   Sancai, Xie ^b   Szafranska, Bozena ^b,d   Gan, Xinsheng ^b   Newman, Adam G ^b   McDowell, Karen ^c   Roberts, R Michael ^a,b  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d UNIV OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; PEPSINOGEN; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHORION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORSE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PERISSODACTYLA; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECRETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0344417869     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.5.1069     Document Type: Article

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