Expression of Urocortin in the Extravillous Human Trophoblast at the Implantation Site

Placenta

Volumn 28, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 127-132

  Bamberger, C M ^a   Minas, V ^b   Bamberger, A M ^a   Charalampopoulos, I ^b   Fragouli, Y ^b   Schulte, H M ^c   Makrigiannakis, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c ENDOKRINOLOGIKUM HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extravillous trophoblast; Implantation site; Urocortin

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; DIACYLGLYCEROL; FORSKOLIN; IONOMYCIN; MESSENGER RNA; PHORBOL ESTER; PROTEIN KINASE C; UROCORTIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TROPHOBLAST;

CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IONOMYCIN; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 33845480752     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2006.03.013     Document Type: Article

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