Fetal sex affects expression of renin-angiotensin system components in term human decidua

Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 462-468

  Wang, Yu ^a   Pringle, Kirsty G ^a   Sykes, Shane D ^a   Marques, Francine Z ^b   Morris, Brian J ^b   Zakar, Tamas ^a   Lumbers, Eugenie R ^a  

^a JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN 1 RECEPTOR; ANGIOTENSIN 2 RECEPTOR; ANGIOTENSIN 3 RECEPTOR; ANGIOTENSIN 4 RECEPTOR; ANGIOTENSIN 5 RECEPTOR; ANGIOTENSIN 6 RECEPTOR; ANGIOTENSIN 7 RECEPTOR; ANGIOTENSIN CONVERTING ENZYME 2; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR; ANGIOTENSINOGEN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; PRORENIN; PRORENIN RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECIDUA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS GENDER; GENDER; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; ANGIOTENSINOGEN; DECIDUA; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MALE; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; PREGNANCY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR, ANGIOTENSIN, TYPE 1; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RENIN; RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VACUOLAR PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84455160618     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2011-1316     Document Type: Article

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