Attenuated tubal and endometrial urocortin 1 and corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor expression in ectopic pregnancy

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 261-268

  Borges, L E ^a   Horne, A W ^b   McDonald, S E ^b   Shaw, J L V ^b   Lourenco, P C ^b   Petraglia, F ^a   Critchley, Hilary O D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone receptor; Ectopic pregnancy; Endometrium; Fallopian tube; Urocortin 1

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; MESSENGER RNA; UROCORTIN I;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEAL PHASE; NIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UTERINE TUBE;

ADULT; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, TUBAL; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; UROCORTINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952521986     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719110385132     Document Type: Article

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