The Corpus Luteum revisited: Are the paradoxical effects of RU486 a clue to how progesterone stimulates its own secretion?

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-4

  Rothchild, Irving ^a,b  

^a School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MIFEPRISTONE; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

CORPUS LUTEUM FUNCTION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE RELEASE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0029834989     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod55.1.1     Document Type: Short Survey

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