Hormone trajectories leading to human birth

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 108, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 159-164

  Smith, Roger ^a   Mesiano, Sam ^a   McGrath, Shaun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone; Hormone; Human birth

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ESTROGEN; HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR A; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR B; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILDBIRTH; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MEMBRANE; MOTHER; MYOMETRIUM; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PLACENTA; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; TECHNIQUE; UTERINE CERVIX;

EID: 0037107422     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-0115(02)00105-2     Document Type: Article

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