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Early pregnancy loss in 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase knockout (15-HPGD-/-) mice due to requirement for embryo 15-HPGD activity.
Scientific reports - 26 Nov 2019
Roizen Jeffrey D, Asada Minoru, Tong Min, Tai Hsin-Hsiung, Muglia Louis J
Abstract excerpt
Prostaglandins (PGs) have critical signaling functions in a variety of processes including the establishment and maintenance of pregnancy, and the initiation of labor. Most PGs are non-enzymatically degraded, however, the two PGs most prominently implicated in the termination of pregnancy, including the initiation of labor, prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and prostaglandin F2α (PGF2α), are enzymatically degraded by...
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