Low Type I Cannabinoid Receptor Levels Characterize Placental Villous in Labouring Delivery

Placenta

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 203-205

  Acone, G ^a   Trabucco, E ^a   Colacurci, N ^a   Cobellis, L ^a   Mackie, K ^b   Meccariello, R ^c   Cacciola, G ^a   Chioccarelli, T ^a   Fasano, S ^a   Pierantoni, R ^a   Cobellis, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANANDAMIDE; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; ENDOCANNABINOID; FATTY ACID AMIDASE; GONADORELIN; NITRIC OXIDE; PROSTAGLANDIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LABOR; LETTER; MATERNAL PLASMA; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PLACENTA VILLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; AMIDOHYDROLASES; ARACHIDONIC ACIDS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHORIONIC VILLI; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; POLYUNSATURATED ALKAMIDES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; RECEPTOR, CANNABINOID, CB1; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58249085755     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2008.11.018     Document Type: Letter

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