Lack of normal increase in saliva estriol/progesterone ratio in women with labor induced at 42 weeks' gestation.
Saliva specimens were collected approximately every 6 hours from day 280 to day 294 by 16 women who labored on day 294. There was a normal rise in the mean saliva estriol/progesterone ratio in the six who went into labor spontaneously but no change in the 10 whose labor was induced.
Moran
D J
DJ
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London, England.
McGarrigle
H H
HH
Lachelin
G C
GC
D004964:Estriol / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007751:Labor, Induced; D007743:Labor, Obstetric / Q000378:metabolism; D011247:Pregnancy; D011273:Pregnancy, Prolonged / Q000378:metabolism*; D011374:Progesterone / Q000378:metabolism*; D012016:Reference Values; D012463:Saliva / Q000378:metabolism*
D011374:Progesterone; D004964:Estriol