Uterine and embryonic trophoblast CRH promotes implantation and maintenance of early pregnancy

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 997, Issue , 2003, Pages 85-92

  Makrigiannakis, Antonis ^a   Zoumakis, Emmanouil ^a,b   Kalantaridou, Sofia ^c   Chrousos, George ^b   Gravanis, Achilleas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; CRH; Decidualization; Endometrium; Extravillous trophoblast; Fasl; Implantation; Opioids

Indexed keywords

ANTALARMIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CYTOKINE; FAS ANTIGEN; PROSTANOID; SEX HORMONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; CRF RECEPTOR TYPE 1; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; BLASTOCYST; CELL SECRETION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; DECIDUALIZATION; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENDOMETRIUM; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; MYOMETRIUM; NIDATION; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STROMA CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; UTERUS; ANIMAL; BREEDING; CELL CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELLS, CULTURED; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PYRIMIDINES; PYRROLES; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROMAL CELLS; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 0642272539     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1290.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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