Effect of Androstenedione Administration on the Maternal Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Adreno-Placental Axis in the Pregnant Rhesus Monkey

Endocrinology

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 608-614

  Giussani, D A ^a   Jenkins, S L ^a   Mecenas, C A ^a   Winter, J A ^a   Pedro, J G ^a   Farber, D M ^a   Goland, R S ^b   Nathanielsz, P W ^a  

^a Animal Health Diagnostic Center   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ESTRADIOL; HYDROCORTISONE; INTRALIPID; PRASTERONE SULFATE;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MACACA MULATTA; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL;

EID: 0030045293     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.137.2.8593809     Document Type: Article

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