Ontogeny of uteroplacental progestagen production in pregnant mares during the second half of gestation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 540-548

  Ousey, J C ^a   Forhead, A J ^a   Rossdale, P D ^b   Grainger, L ^c   Houghton, E ^c   Fowden, A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BEAUFORT COTTAGE STABLES   (United Kingdom)

^c Horseracing Forensic Laboratory Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Placenta; Pregnancy; Progesterone; Steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

20ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 3 ONE; 5ALPHAA PREGNANE 3,20 DIONE; GESTAGEN; PREGNENOLONE; PROGESTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; FETUS; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HORSE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FETUS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HORSES; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROGESTINS; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0037623744     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.013292     Document Type: Article

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