The endocrine function of human placenta: An overview

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 14-43

  Costa, Mariana A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

placental hormones, peptide hormones, pregnancy, steroid hormones, syncytiotrophoblast

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; ADIPOCYTOKINE; ADIPONECTIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTROGEN; INHIBIN; KISSPEPTIN; LEPTIN; PLACENTA LACTOGEN; PLACENTA PROTEIN; PLACENTAL GROWTH FACTOR; PLACENTAL PEPTIDE HORMONE; PLACENTAL PROTEIN 13; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN A; PROGESTERONE; RESISTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HORMONE;

ANGIOGENESIS; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DECIDUALIZATION; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENDOMETRIUM; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MATERNAL BLOOD; NIDATION; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REVIEW; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; ANIMAL; FEMALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HORMONES; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PLACENTATION; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE;

EID: 84954373462     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2015.10.005     Document Type: Review

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