Reproductive ecology and the endometrium: Physiology, variation, and new directions

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 140, Issue SUPPL. 49, 2009, Pages 137-154

  Clancy, Kathryn B H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

ecology; endometrium; energetics; inflammation; reproductive ecology

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; ESTRADIOL; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; LEUPRORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OXYTOCIN; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; PROSTAGLANDIN; SEX HORMONE;

AMENORRHEA; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; CANCER RISK; CONCEPTION; DECIDUALIZATION; ECOLOGY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS WASTAGE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE METABOLISM; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OVARY; OVARY FUNCTION; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY; PRIMATE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; UTERUS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ANIMAL; FEMALE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MENOPAUSE; METABOLISM; NIDATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ANIMALS; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUATION; PREGNANCY; PRIMATES; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

HOMINOIDEA; PRIMATES;

EID: 70449597695     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21188     Document Type: Article

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