Mechanisms for establishment of the placental glucocorticoid barrier, a guard for life

Zhu, P; Wang, WS; Zuo, RJ; Sun, K

Sun, K (reprint author), Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Med, Ren Ji Hosp, Ctr Reprod Med, Shanghai 200135, Peoples R China.; Sun, K (reprint author), Shanghai Key Lab Assisted Reprod & Reprod Genet, Shanghai, Peoples R China.

CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES, 2019; 76 (1): 13

Abstract

The fetus is shielded from the adverse effects of excessive maternal glucocorticoids by 11-HSD2, an enzyme which is expressed in the syncytial layer o......

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