Measurement of circulating inhibin forms during the establishment of pregnancy

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1471-1475

  Illingworth, Peter J ^a   Groome, Nigel P ^b   Duncan, W Colin ^c   Grant, Vivian ^c   Tovanabutra, Sodsai ^a   Baird, David T ^a   McNeilly, Alan S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre for Reproductive Biology ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN; INHIBIN A; INHIBIN B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CORPUS LUTEUM FUNCTION; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; NORMAL HUMAN; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHOBLAST;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBINS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; MIDDLE AGED; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC;

EID: 0029877173     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.4.1471     Document Type: Article

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