Placental steroids in cattle: Hormones, placental growth factors or by-products of trophoblast giant cell differentiation?

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 429-436

  Schuler, Gerhard ^a   Greven, H ^a   Kowalewski, M P ^a   Doring B ^a   Ozalp C R ^b   Hoffmann, B ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cattle; Placenta; Steroid receptors; Steroidogenic enzymes

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CHOLESTEROL SULFATE; CYTOCHROME P450C17; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGEN SULFOTRANSFERASE; ESTRONE; ESTRONE SULFATE; PLACENTAL GROWTH FACTOR; PREGNENOLONE SULFATE; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; STEROID HORMONE; STERYL SULFATASE;

AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CATTLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; DOWN REGULATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; GIANT CELL; HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; STEROIDOGENESIS; TROPHOBLAST; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; PLACENTA; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 50849119402     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1042408     Document Type: Review

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