The postnatal presence of human chorionic gonadotropin in preterm infants and its potential inverse association with retinopathy of prematurity

BACKGROUND: Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and luteinizing hormone (LH) are pro-angiogenic gonadotropic hormones, which classically target the reproductive organs. However, hCG, LH and their shared CG/LH receptor are also present in the human eye. The possibility that a deficiency of these hormo...

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Autores principales: Movsas, Tammy Z, Paneth, Nigel, Gewolb, Ira H, Lu, Qing, Cavey, Gregory, Muthusamy, Arivalagan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7035966/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31537012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41390-019-0580-8

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7035966/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31537012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41390-019-0580-8

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