Placental Neurokinin B mRNA Expression Increases at Preterm Labor

Placenta

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1020-1023

  Torricelli, M ^a   Giovannelli, A ^a   Leucci, E ^a   Florio, P ^a   De Falco, G ^a   Torres, P B ^a   Reis, F M ^b   Leoncini, L ^a   Petraglia, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

NKB; Preterm labor; Tachykinins; Term labor

Indexed keywords

NEUROKININ B; NEUROPEPTIDE; PLACENTA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIRTH; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; NEUROKININ B; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 34548425621     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2007.04.006     Document Type: Article

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