An evolutionary test of the isoform switching hypothesis of functional progesterone withdrawal for parturition: humans have a weaker repressive effect of PR-A than mice Article

Wagner, Guenter P, Tong, Yingchun, Emera, Deena et al. (2012). An evolutionary test of the isoform switching hypothesis of functional progesterone withdrawal for parturition: humans have a weaker repressive effect of PR-A than mice . Journal of Perinatal Medicine, 40(4), 345-351. 10.1515/jpm-2011-0256

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cited authors

  • Wagner, Guenter P; Tong, Yingchun; Emera, Deena; Romero, Roberto

authors

publication date

  • June 1, 2012

published in

keywords

  • CERVICAL LENGTH
  • EXPRESSION
  • FETAL
  • FORM
  • Functional progesterone withdrawal
  • HUMAN LABOR
  • HUMAN-PREGNANCY
  • Life Sciences & Biomedicine
  • MYOMETRIUM
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • PRETERM BIRTH
  • Pediatrics
  • RECEPTOR-A
  • Science & Technology
  • TERM
  • human evolution
  • human parturition
  • isoform switching
  • progesterone receptor

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start page

  • 345

end page

  • 351

volume

  • 40

issue

  • 4