Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 12 , Pages 1023-1028 , December 2009

Role of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin in Maintaining 11β-hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Type 2 Expression in Human Placental Syncytiotrophoblasts

  • X.T. Ni

      Affiliations

    • Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Health Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai 200040, PR China
    • Authors have equal contribution to this work.
    • ,
  • T. Duan

      Affiliations

    • Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Health Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai 200040, PR China
    • Authors have equal contribution to this work.
    • ,
  • Z. Yang

      Affiliations

    • School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, PR China
    • ,
  • C.M. Guo

      Affiliations

    • School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, PR China
    • ,
  • J.N. Li

      Affiliations

    • School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, PR China
    • ,
  • K. Sun

      Affiliations

    • School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, PR China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +86 21 55664842; fax: +86 21 55664388.

,Accepted 10 October 2009.

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☆ This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30570680, 30870935 to KS).

PII: S0143-4004(09)00321-X

doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2009.10.005

Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 12 , Pages 1023-1028 , December 2009

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