Steroid hormone metabolism by the chorioallantoic placenta of the mountain spiny lizard Sceloporus jarrovi as a possible mechanism for buffering maternal-fetal hormone exchange

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 364-372

  Painter, Danika L ^a   Moore, Michael C ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; PREGNENOLONE; PROGESTERONE;

EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; LIZARD; METABOLISM; STEROID;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHORIOALLANTOIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; LIZARD; METABOLISM; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARIZONA; CHORIOALLANTOIC MEMBRANE; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; LIZARDS; PREGNENOLONE; PROGESTERONE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; SCELOPORUS; SCELOPORUS JARROVII; SCELOPORUS JARROVII JARROVII; SQUAMATA; ZOOTOCA VIVIPARA;

EID: 19944367260     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/430222     Document Type: Article

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