Milk-borne relaxin and the lactocrine hypothesis for maternal programming of neonatal tissues

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1160, Issue , 2009, Pages 152-157

  Bagnell, Carol A ^a   Steinetz, Bernard G ^b   Bartol, Frank F ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lactation; Lactocrine; Milk; Neonate; Pig; Relaxin; RXFP1

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; MILK PROTEIN; PROTEIN RXFP1; RELAXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HEART; LACTATION; LACTOCRINE; MILK; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SWINE; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS;

MAMMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 64549123051     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.03834.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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