Pregnancy maintenance and the regulation of placental progesterone biosynthesis in the baboon

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 389-405

  Henson, Michael C ^a,b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Baboon; Cholesterol; Hormone; Placenta; Primate; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRAZOLO[3,4 D]PYRIMIDINE; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; CYTOCHROME P450; ESTROGEN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE;

BABOON; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENZYME REGULATION; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; CHOLESTEROL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PAPIO; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY MAINTENANCE; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, LDL;

EID: 0031734509     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/4.4.389     Document Type: Conference Paper

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