| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Clinical applications of mifepristone (RU 486) and other antiprogestins/ Committee on Antiprogestins: Assessing the Science, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine ; Molla S. Donaldson ... [et al.], editors. |
| Reminder of title: |
assessing the science and recommending a research agenda/ |
| other author: |
Benet, Leslie Z. |
| Published: |
Washington, D.C. :National Academy Press, : 1993., |
| Description: |
xi, 288 p. :ill. ;23 cm. |
| Notes: |
"Support for this project was provided by a grant from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Menlo Park, California."--Verso T.p. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Background and historical perspectives -- IOM report -- Cross-cutting recommendations -- Uses of antiprogestins: the reproductive cycle -- Contraception -- Post-coital contraception -- Menses induction -- Uses of antiprogestins: the reproductive cycle -- Pregnancy termination during the first trimester -- Pregnancy termination during the second trimester -- Cervical ripening -- Labor induction in late pregnancy -- Other therapeutic uses of antiprogestins -- Endometriosis -- Uterine leiomyomas (fibroids) -- Breast cancer -- Meningiomas -- Antiglucocorticoid effects of antiprogestins -- Glucocorticoid function -- Therapeutic use of mifepristone (RU 486) as an antiglucocorticoid -- Adverse antiglucocorticoid effects of antiprogestins -- Animals as models for studying antiprogestins -- Agenda for the IOM workshop "Antiprogestins: Assessing the Science" -- Background papers and presentations (in order of presentation at IOM workshop) -- 1993: RU 486: a decade on today and tomorrow/ Etienne-Emile Baulieu. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
(cont) Overview and background: mechanism of action of antiprogestins / Nancy L. Weigel -- Use of antiprogestins in the reproductive cycle / Lynnette Kaye Nieman -- Potential contraceptive effects of antigestogens/ David T. Baird -- Use of antiprogestins before 63 days of amenorrhea / Marc Bygdeman -- Uses of antiprogestins after 63 days of amenorrhea/ Ancre Ulmann and Louise Silvestre -- Comments on session II - David Grimes -- Use of antiprogestins in the management of endometriosis and leiomyoma / Samuel S.C. Yen -- Antiprogestins and the treatment of breast cancer/ Kathryn B. Horwitz -- Uses of RU 486 as an antiglucocorticoid / Lynnette Kaye Nieman -- Primate models for the study of antiprogestins in reproductive medicine / Gary D. Hodgen -- Antiprogestogens: perspectives from a global research program/ P.F.A. Van Look and H. von Hertzen -- Observers at the workshop on antiprogestins. |
| Subject: |
Abortifacients - Research. - |
| Online resource: |
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| ISBN: |
0585024782 (electronic bk.) |