Androgen deficiency during mid- and late pregnancy alters progesterone production and metabolism in the porcine corpus luteum

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 778-790

  Grzesiak, Malgorzata ^a   Knapczyk Stwora, Katarzyna ^a   Ciereszko, Renata E ^b   Golas, Aniela ^a   Wieciech, Iwona ^a   Slomczynska, Maria ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

Author keywords

corpus luteum; flutamide; pig; pregnancy; progesterone

Indexed keywords

20ALPHA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; 3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ANDROGEN; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); FLUTAMIDE; ISOMERASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; ANTIANDROGEN;

ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; LUTEAL PHASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SWINE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DEFICIENCY; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZATION;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; FLUTAMIDE; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SWINE;

EID: 84900402158     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719113518991     Document Type: Article

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