Placental Hormones: Physiology, Disease, and Prenatal Diagnosis

The Placenta: From Development to Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 57-65

  Mcnamara, Jennifer M ^a   Kay, Helen H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endocrine hormone, a secreted substance affecting a target organ; Gonadotropin releasing hormone functions stimulating hCG release, expressed by placenta; Hormones regulating maternal metabolism and fetal growth; Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) glycoprotein of alpha and beta subunits; Placenta, and hypothalamic and pituitary analogues corticotropin releasing hormone (CRHorCRF) urocortin and adrenocorticotropin (ACTH); Placenta, organ with diverse functions roles played by placenta, as neuroendocrine organ; Placental hormones in prenatal diagnosis; Placental hormones physiology, disease and prenatal diagnosis; Placental production of estrogen and maternal and fetal adrenal production of precursor dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA S); Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) vasculogenesis, modulating trophoblast survival and function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885533440     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444393927.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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