The fetal brain: Role of progesterone and allopregnanolone

Hormone Molecular Biology and Clinical Investigation

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 29-34

  Pluchino, Nicola ^b   Russo, Marinella ^a   Genazzani, Andrea R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Allopregnanolone; Fetal brain; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; PROGESTERONE; ELTANOLONE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN PROTECTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EXCITOTOXICITY; FETAL BRAIN; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BLOOD; BRAIN; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD; METABOLISM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY;

BRAIN; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; NEUROGENESIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANOLONE; PROGESTERONE;

EID: 84989179895     PISSN: 18681883     EISSN: 18681891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/hmbci-2016-0020     Document Type: Article

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