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  • Title: Placental corticotropin-releasing hormone: function and regulation.
    Author: Majzoub JA, Karalis KP.
    Journal: Am J Obstet Gynecol; 1999 Jan; 180(1 Pt 3):S242-6. PubMed ID: 9914625.
    Abstract:
    Corticotropin-releasing hormone is a neuropeptide placentally expressed among mammals only in primates. Its expression increases as much as 100 times during the last 6 to 8 weeks of pregnancy and is paradoxically stimulated by glucocorticoids. Increasing evidence suggests that placental corticotropin-releasing hormone may have evolved in primates to stimulate fetal adrenocorticotropin release and adrenal steroidogenesis, thus satisfying the high demand for synthesis of dehydroepiandrosterone, the predominant source of placental estradiol. Concomitant stimulation by placental corticotropin-releasing hormone of fetal cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone would couple the glucocorticoid effects on fetal organ maturation with the timing of parturition, an obvious benefit in postnatal survival.
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