Human decidual relaxin and preterm birth

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1041, Issue , 2005, Pages 338-344

  Bryant Greenwood, Gillian D ^a,b   Yamamoto, Sandra Y ^b   Lowndes, Kimberly M ^b   Webster, Lisa E ^a   Parg, Simone S ^a   Amano, Aaron ^b   Bullesbach, Erika E ^c   Schwabe, Christian ^c   Millar, Lynnae K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decidua; EPIL; Fetal membranes; Growth; Infection; Inflammation; INSL4; Placenta; Relaxin

Indexed keywords

HORMONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN LGR7; RELAXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORPUS LUTEUM; DECIDUA; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS MEMBRANE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; LABOR INDUCTION; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 23644459662     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1282.054     Document Type: Conference Paper

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