Studies on Somatotropic Hormone Secretion in Gynecology and Obstetrics

The statement that the placenta produces its own gonadotropin, estrogen, progesteron and corticoid, has been generally accepted. Recently prolactin, ACTH and TSH-like hormone productions have also been attributed to it, but the existence of somatotropic hormone (=STH), a hormone that has come into attention only very recently, in the placenta has been suspected but not yet definitively demonstrated.