Inhibin-betaC subunit expression in normal and pathological human placental tissues

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 197-203

  Mylonas, Ioannis ^a   Makovitzky, Josef ^b   Kunze, Susanne ^a   Brüning, Ansgar ^a   Kainer, Franz ^a   Schiessl, Barbara ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

HELLP syndrome; immunohistochemistry; inhibin betaC; IUGR; placenta; preeclampsia

Indexed keywords

INHIBIN; INHIBIN BETAC; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HELLP SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; PATHOGENESIS; PLACENTA DISORDER; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TROPHOBLAST;

FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HELLP SYNDROME; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBIN-BETA SUBUNITS; PLACENTA; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 80052126413     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/19396368.2010.528505     Document Type: Article

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