The uteroplacental prolactin family and pregnancy

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 273-284

  Soares, Michael J ^a   Müller, Heiner ^a,b   Orwig, Kyle E ^a   Peters, Thomas J ^a   Dai, Guoli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; PLACENTA LACTOGEN; PROLACTIN; PROLACTIN RECEPTOR; PROLIFERIN; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR;

ADAPTATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECIDUA; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE STRUCTURE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROLACTIN; UTERUS;

EID: 2642590950     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod58.2.273     Document Type: Conference Paper

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