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Placental corticotrophin-releasing hormone: activator of the pituitary–adrenal axis in human pregnancy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

E. A. Linton ,
C. D. A. Wolfe  and
P. J. Lowry
E. A. Linton
Affiliation:
Departments of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 228, Reading RG6 2AJ
C. D. A. Wolfe
Affiliation:
Department of Community Medicine, St Thomas's Hospital, LondonSE1 7EH
P. J. Lowry
Affiliation:
Departments of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 228, Reading RG6 2AJ
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Symposium on ‘Recent research on the placenta’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , August 1991 , pp. 363 - 370
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The Nutrition Society

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