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Trophoblast Interferons: Expression During Development and Gene Organization

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Trophoblast Cells

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Abstract

The major proteins that are secreted by the preimplantation trophoblast of domestic ruminant species and that have been implicated as the an¬tiluteolytic factors modulating the release of the uterine luteolysin, pros¬taglandin F2a, during the period of maternal recognition of pregnancy have been identified as type I interferons (IFN). They are most appropriately named trophoblast IFN (IFNτ) and are related structurally to the IFNα, IFNβ, and IFNω with which they also share many biological properties.

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  1. Department of Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, 66160, Kansas City, KS, USA

    Michael J. Soares Ph.D.

  2. Department of Biology, Sinsheimer Laboratories, University of California, 95064, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

    Frank Talamantes Ph.D.

  3. Division of Endocrinology, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 45229, Cincinnati, OH, USA

    Stuart Handwerger M.D.

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Roberts, R.M., Leaman, D.W., Hernandez-Ledezma, J.J., Cosby, N.C. (1993). Trophoblast Interferons: Expression During Development and Gene Organization. In: Soares, M.J., Talamantes, F., Handwerger, S. (eds) Trophoblast Cells. Serono Symposia, USA Norwell, Massachusetts. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2718-2_14

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