The endocrinology of pregnancy and fetal loss in wild baboons

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 688-699

  Beehner, Jacinta C ^a   Nguyen, Nga ^a   Wango, Emmanuel O ^b,d   Alberts, Susan C ^c,d   Altmann, Jeanne ^a,d,e  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^e BROOKFIELD ZOO   (United States)

Author keywords

Baboon; Estrogens; Fecal steroids; Fetal loss; Glucocorticoids; Miscarriage; Papio; Pregnancy; Progestins

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID; STEROID HORMONE;

ARTICLE; BABOON; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DATA ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FETUS MORTALITY; FETUS WASTAGE; GESTATION PERIOD; KENYA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STILLBIRTH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ESTROGENS; FECES; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; KENYA; PAPIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROGESTINS;

EID: 33646134098     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2005.12.016     Document Type: Article

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