Serum concentrations of oestradiol-17β, progesterone, relaxin and chorionic gonadotrophin during blastocyst implantation in natural pregnancy cycle and in embryo transfer cycle in the rhesus monkey

Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 914-920

  Ghosh, Debabrata ^a   Stewart, Dennis R ^b   Nayak, Nihar Ranjan ^a   Lasley, Bill L ^b   Overstreet, James W ^b   Hendrickx, Andrew G ^b   Sengupta, Jayasree ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chorionic gonadotrophin; Oestradiol 17 ; Progesterone; Relaxin; Rhesus monkey

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; RELAXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RHESUS MONKEY;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0030913683     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/12.5.914     Document Type: Article

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