The Human Relaxin Receptor (LGR7): Expression in the Fetal Membranes and Placenta

Placenta

Volumn 27, Issue 6-7, 2006, Pages 610-618

  Lowndes, K ^a   Amano, A ^a   Yamamoto, S Y ^a   Bryant Greenwood, G D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal membranes; Human relaxin; Placenta; Relaxin receptor

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; HORMONE RECEPTOR; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 7; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 8; RELAXIN RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMNION; AMNION CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; DECIDUA; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FETUS MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; PLACENTA; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 33645932334     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2005.07.011     Document Type: Article

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