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Placental Hormone Activity Alteration
Any physiologic process that results in modulated activity of any of the placental hormones, including choriogonadotropic hormone, chorionic somatomammotropin hormone, inhibin, estrogen and progesterone. These processes are involved in physiologic changes that support pregnancy. (NCI Thesaurus)
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