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1987 • 388 citations

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1996 • 334 citations

Evidence for local stimulation of ACTH secretion by corticotropin-releasing factor in human placenta

1987 • 334 citations

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1986 • 280 citations

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1999 • 147 citations

Human placenta and fetal membranes express human urocortin mRNA and peptide.

1996 • 136 citations

Comparison of an agonist, urocortin, and an antagonist, astressin, as radioligands for characterization of corticotropin-releasing factor receptors.

1999 • 130 citations

Urocortin, but Not Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone (CRH), Activates the Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Signal Transduction Pathway in Human Pregnant Myometrium: An Effect Mediated via R1α and R2β CRH Receptor Subtypes and Stimulation of Gq-Proteins

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Placental corticotrophin releasing factor may modulate human parturition

1989 • 115 citations

Human decidua and in vitro decidualized endometrial stromal cells at term contain immunoreactive corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) and CRF messenger ribonucleic acid.

1992 • 109 citations

Predicting risk of preterm delivery by second-trimester measurement of maternal plasma corticotropin-releasing hormone and α-fetoprotein concentrations

1999 • 102 citations

Corticotropin-releasing factor and its binding protein: Maternal serum levels in term and preterm deliveries

1996 • 85 citations

Corticotropin-releasing hormone increases prostaglandin F2α activity on human myometrium in vitro

1994 • 84 citations

Characterization of the relaxant action of urocortin, a new peptide related to corticotropin‐releasing factor in the rat isolated basilar artery

1998 • 81 citations

Urocortin Stimulates Placental Adrenocorticotropin and Prostaglandin Release and Myometrial Contractility in Vitro

1999 • 81 citations

Putative role of placental corticotropin-releasing factor in the mechanisms of human parturition.

1999 • 76 citations

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1990 • 72 citations

Activin A, corticotropin-releasing factor and prostaglandin F2α increase immunoreactive oxytocin release from cultured human placental cells

1996 • 71 citations

Elevated mid‐trimester maternal corticotrophin‐releasing hormone levels in pregnancies that delivered before 34 weeks

1999 • 70 citations

Human Placenta, Chorion, Amnion and Decidua Express Different Variants of Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Receptor Messenger RNA

2000 • 67 citations

Immunoreactive corticotropin-releasing factor and corticotropin during pregnancy, labor and puerperium

1987 • 59 citations

Corticotrophin-releasing hormone and β-endorphin in labour

1994 • 58 citations

Maternal plasma and placental immunoreactive corticotrophin-releasing factor concentrations in infection-associated term and pre-term delivery

1995 • 57 citations

Effect of corticotropin-releasing factor-binding protein on prostaglandin release from cultured maternal decidua and on contractile activity of human myometrium in vitro.

1995 • 56 citations

Localization and Characterization of Urocortin during Human Pregnancy

2000 • 47 citations

High levels of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) are inversely correlated with low levels of maternal CRF-binding protein in pregnant women with pregnancy-induced hypertension.

1996 • 46 citations

Urocortin in human placenta and maternal plasma

1999 • 43 citations

Pulsatile fluctuations of plasma‐gonadotropin‐releasing hormone and corticotropin‐releasing factor levels in healthy pregnant women

1994 • 38 citations

Urocortin in pregnancy

1998 • 33 citations

Pharmacological characterization of recombinant rat corticotropin releasing factor binding protein using different sauvagine analogs

2001 • 31 citations

Role for cyclic adenosine monophosphate in the synergistic interaction between oxytocin and corticotrophin‐releasing factor in isolated human gestational myometrium

1992 • 24 citations

Effects of corticotrophin releasing hormone on contractile activity of myometrium from pregnant women

1999 • 23 citations

Putative Role of Placental Corticotropin-Releasing Factor in the Mechanisms of Human Parturition

1999 • 23 citations

Lack of gestation-related changes of urocortin gene expression in human placenta

1999 • 15 citations