Potential roles of the prokineticins in reproduction

Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 66-72

  Maldonado Pérez, David ^a   Evans, Jemma ^a   Denison, Fiona ^a   Millar, Robert P ^a   Jabbour, Henry N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE GLAND DERIVED VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; GONADORELIN; PROKINETICIN 2; RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTESTINE CONTRACTION; NOCICEPTION; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; OVARY; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROTEIN SECRETION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TESTIS; UTERUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HORMONES; GONADAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR, ENDOCRINE-GLAND-DERIVED;

EID: 33847008626     PISSN: 10432760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tem.2006.12.002     Document Type: Review

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