Placental hormone

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Broader Terms

peptide hormone, reproductive hormone

Narrower Terms

chorionic gonadotropin, somatomammotropin

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

• " Thus, if there's any control by a growth hormone molecule in the maternal blood stream during the second half of pregnancy, it's likely that the placental hormone is taking over that role.
• A model The evolution of maternal responses to a placental hormone is a theoretically challenging problem.
• These data indicate that the placental hormone is not a potent lactogen in the homologous species and that its role in the control of mammary gland development and activity may have been previously overestimated.
• One example of a placental hormone is human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG).
• Whether relaxin or another placental hormone is the stimulus for the gestational rise in prolactin is not known.

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