title: Lack of normal increase in saliva estriol/progesterone ratio in women with labor induced at 42 weeks' gestation.
abstract: 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.
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London, England.
authors: D J
authors: DJ
authors: Moran
authors: H H
authors: HH
authors: McGarrigle
authors: G C
authors: GC
authors: Lachelin
mesh_terms: 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*
chemical_list: D011374:Progesterone; D004964:Estriol