Placental Steroid Hormone Synthesis: Unique Features and Unanswered Questions1

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Despite the amazing diversity of placental architecture across species, a number of common elements can be found, including the ability of all placentae to synthesize and metabolize steroid hormones; the assignment of steroidogenic activities to specific trophoblast phenotypes; the use of novel mechanisms to control expression of steroidogenic enzyme genes, which differ from those employed in the adrenal cortex...

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