Placental steroid hormone synthesis: Unique features and unanswered questions

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 303-311

  Strauss III, Jerome F ^a,b   Martinez, Federico ^b   Kiriakidou, Marianthi ^b  

^a 778 Clinical Research Building ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CYCLIC AMP; HORMONE PRECURSOR; HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; PROGESTERONE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; STEROID HORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PLACENTA; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROIDOGENESIS; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; STEROIDS; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 0030031783     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.2.303     Document Type: Article

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