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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The physiological role of relaxin in the pregnant gilt: The effects of relaxin on the physical and biochemical properties of the cervix and on mammary development in ovariectomized hormone-treated pregnant gilts
Abstract
dc:descriptionThe purpose of this research was to determine the physiological roles of relaxin in pregnant gilts by ovariectomizing gilts during the last third of gestation followed by hormone replacement therapy. Nara and coworkers demonstrated that in pigs ovariectomized in late pregnancy a prolonged delivery and a low incidence of live births occurred in the absence of relaxin replacement. Eldridge-White and coworkers demonstrated that in intact pregnant pigs beginning about day 80 of pregnancy and continuing until term, cervical extensibility and size increased coinciding with rising relaxin and estrogen levels.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Molecular and Integrative Physiology
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Bowman, Mary Bridget
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Sherwood, O. David
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright 1991 Bowman, Mary Bridget
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
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AAI9136549
(UMI)AAI9136549 - OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/23286