TY - JOUR AU - Ushizawa, Koichi AU - Takahashi, Toru AU - Hosoe, Misa AU - Ohkoshi, Katsuhiro AU - Hashizume, Kazuyoshi PY - 2007 DA - 2007/10/25 TI - Expression and characterization of novel ovine orthologs of bovine placental prolactin-related proteins JO - BMC Molecular Biology SP - 95 VL - 8 IS - 1 AB - The prolactin-related proteins (PRPs) are non-classical placental-specific members of the prolactin/growth hormone family. Among ruminants, they are expressed in the cotyledonary villi of cattle and goat. We investigated placental PRP in sheep in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the function and evolution of these molecules. We also examined the sequence properties, expression and lactogenic activation of the cloned genes. SN - 1471-2199 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2199-8-95 DO - 10.1186/1471-2199-8-95 ID - Ushizawa2007 ER -