The development of a growing fetus is undoubtedly a complicated and intricate process. Insulin-like growth factor-2, a hormone that plays a major role in fetal and placental development, can have an impact on behavior long after birth if the hormone is disrupted. Scientists at Cardiff & Cambridge Universities recently studied adult mice with an imbalance […]
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Pituitary Hormones from the Placenta has Ancestral Beginnings
Once again research is finding just how dynamic the placenta truly is. New research has found pituitary hormones from the placenta have ancestral origins in therian (live bearing) mammals. “Placental expression of these pituitary hormones has clearly been conserved in marsupials as in eutherian (placental) mammals, suggesting an ancestral origin of the evolution of placental […]