PROGESTERONE AND MAINTENANCE OF PREGNANCY: IS PROGESTERONE NATURE'S IMMUNOSUPPRESSANT?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 286, Issue 1, 1977, Pages 384-397

  Siiteri, Pentti K ^a   Febres, Freddy ^a   Clemens, L E ^a   Chang, R Jeffrey ^a   Gondos, Bernard ^a   Stites, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

20ALPHA DIHYDROPROGESTERONE; ANDROSTANOLONE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CORTODOXONE; DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTRADIOL; ESTRIOL; ESTRONE; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; NANDROLONE; NORETHISTERONE ACETATE; NORGESTREL; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; PREGNENOLONE; PROGESTERONE; RADIOISOTOPE; TESTOSTERONE; STEROID;

ANDROSTANOLONE ACETATE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; OVARY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; T LYMPHOCYTE; TESTOSTERONE ACETATE; THEORETICAL STUDY; THYMIDINE H 3; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GRANULOMA; HAMSTER; IMMUNOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; MIXED LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SKIN DISEASE;

ANIMAL; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; GRANULOMA; HAMSTERS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IN VITRO; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE TEST, MIXED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY MAINTENANCE; PROGESTERONE; RATS; SKIN DISEASES; STEROIDS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0017620255     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1977.tb29431.x     Document Type: Article

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