Lorundrostat, a novel therapy which blocks the production of aldosterone from the adrenal glands, demonstrated clinically meaningful and sustained reductions in blood pressure in 1,083 patients with ...

The placenta plays an important role in your pregnancy, as the intricate organ connects you and your baby in the uterus and delivers oxygen, nutrients, and hormones to them while also filtering out ...

A University of California, Irvine-led team has found evidence of a potential link between patterns of changes in a key pregnancy hormone—placental corticotropin-releasing hormone—and symptoms ...

The placenta appears linked to a woman's risk of gestational diabetes A woman's risk increases if her placenta produces lower levels of insulin-like growth factor 1 IGF-1 is related to insulin and ...

During pregnancy, the placenta secretes hormones that increase insulin resistance, which may cause gestational diabetes (GD). Left untreated, diabetes can damage the placenta. GD begins in the ...

The scientists found that deleting Igf2 from the placenta's signaling cells affects the production of other hormones that modulate the way the mother's pancreas produces insulin, and how her liver ...

Igf2 controls placental hormone production ... Mechanistically, Igf2 controls protein synthesis and cellular energy homeostasis, actions dependent on the placental endocrine cell-type.

Human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG, is a hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta. Its detection in the urine and serum is the basis for one kind of pregnancy test. While the ...

“In women, this spans hormone secretion, metabolism, direct toxicity to eggs, ovulation, placental growth and ... block the enzyme responsible for the synthesis of estrogen,” she said.