Endocrinologic Comparison of Activin A Secretion during Pregnancy and Early Lactation in Japanese Monkeys, Chimpanzees, and Humans

Endocrine

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 239-243

  Kondo, Masahiro ^a,b   Kojima, Chihiro ^b   Watanabe, Gen ^a,b   Shimizu, Keiko ^c   Itoh, Mariko ^c   Udono, Toshifumi ^d   Taya, Kazuyoshi ^a,b  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SANWA KAGAKU KENKYUSHO CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activin A; Inhibin subunits; Lactation; Nonhuman primates; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; ANTISERUM; INHIBIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CHIMPANZEE; CIRCULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENDOCRINOLOGY; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; LACTATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PUERPERIUM; STAINING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TIME;

EID: 0842334752     PISSN: 1355008X     EISSN: 15590100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/ENDO:22:3:239     Document Type: Article

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