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In 1928 Corner and Allen wrote: ‘We have been able to prepare alcoholic extracts of the corpora lutea of swine which produce in spayed rabbits a condition of the uterus identical with normal progestational proliferation’1.
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Herrmann, W.L., Schindler, A.M., Wyss, R., Bischof, P. (1985). Effects of the antiprogesterone RU 486 in early pregnancy and during the menstrual cycle. In: Runnebaum, B., Rabe, T., Kiesel, L. (eds) Future Aspects in Contraception. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4916-4_22
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