Twelve-month evaluation of rhesus monkey dams and infants after relaxin (hRlx-2) infusion in late pregnancy

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 29-36

  Golub, Mari S ^a,e   Galiher, Norma J ^b,c   Working, Peter K ^b,d   Greenspan, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GENENTECH INC   (United States)

^c Liposome Technology Inc ^*  (United States)

^d Liposome Technology Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Fertility; Growth; Infant; Monkeys; Neonate; Pregnancy; Relaxin; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; RELAXIN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREEDING; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FOLLOW UP; IMMUNOLOGY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MACACA; MUSCLE TONE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MACACA MULATTA; MUSCLE TONUS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RELAXIN;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 0030037574     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0890-6238(95)02015-2     Document Type: Article

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