The Placenta and the Prolactin Family of Hormones: Regulation of the Physiology of Pregnancy

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After fertilization, the next major hurdle for reproduction in eutherian mammals is trophoblast differentiation, which is required for implantation. This in turn is followed lock step by the rapid assembly of these cells into a functional placenta. Although there is a great deal of species-to-species variation in the assemblage process per se, the functional results are always the same. For the remainder of...

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