The Yale journal of biology and medicine.
Publisher:
Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
Frequency: Six no. a year
Country: United States
Language: English
Start Year:1928 -
Identifiers
| ISSN: | 0044-0086 (Print) 1551-4056 (Electronic) 0044-0086 (Linking) |
| NLM ID: | 0417414 |
| (DNLM): | Y00360000(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 01641751 |
| Coden: | YJBMAU |
| Classification: | W1 YA454 |
A Brief Account of the Discovery of the Fetal/Placental Unit for Estrogen Production in Equine and Human Pregnancies: Relation to Human Medicine. The role of steroids in human medicine is well recognized, but the major contributions made by the large domestic animals as a source of material in the discovery, isolation, and determination of the structure of the steroid hormones is less well appreciated. After a brief reminder of the early efforts to obtain a reliable source of steroids for clinical use, the narrative here is to outline one example where success was ultimately achieved for estrogen replacement therapy. Whereas knowledge of the high concentrations of estrogens in urine of pregnant women and mares dates from the late 1920s,...
Melanomas in horses. No abstract available