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The balance between fetal oxytocin and placental leucine aminopeptidase (P-LAP) controls human uterine contraction around labor onset

A fetal pituitary hormone, oxytocin which causes uterine contractions, increases throughout gestation, and its increase reaches 10-fold from week 32 afterward. Oxytocin is, on the other hand, degraded by placental leucine aminopeptidase (P-LAP) which exists in both terminal villi and maternal blood....

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Autores principales: Yoshihara, Masato, Mizutani, Shigehiko, Matsumoto, Kunio, Kato, Yukio, Masuo, Yusuke, Harumasa, Arita, Iyoshi, Shohei, Tano, Sho, Mizutani, Hidesuke, Kotani, Tomomi, Mizutani, Eita, Shibata, Kiyosumi, Kajiyama, Hiroaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10518509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37753515
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurox.2023.100210