"Pseudopregnancy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
An acyclic state that resembles PREGNANCY in that there is no ovarian cycle, ESTROUS CYCLE, or MENSTRUAL CYCLE. Unlike pregnancy, there is no EMBRYO IMPLANTATION. Pseudopregnancy can be experimentally induced to form DECIDUOMA in the UTERUS.
| Descriptor ID |
D011555
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G08.686.784.769.887
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Transient shortening of estrous cycles in aging C57BL/6J mice: effects of spontaneous pseudopregnancy, progesterone, L-dihydroxyphenylalanine, and hydergine. Biol Reprod. 1987 May; 36(4):949-59.