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Corpus luteum function in ageing inbred mice

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Impaired breeding performance of aged female mice was associated with reduced numbers of ovulations and increased mortality of embryos. The amounts of progesterone in the sera, corpora lutea and uterine flushings of these animals were similar to those of young animals when measured by radioimmunoassay.

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  1. R. G. Gosden

    Present address: Department of Physiology, University Medical School, Teviot Place, EH8 9AG, Edinburgh, Scotland

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  1. Physiological Laboratory, Downing Street, CB2 3EG, Cambridge, (England)

    R. G. Gosden & Ruth E. Fowler

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Financial support was provided by the Medical Research Council (R.G.G.) and the Ford Foundation and one of us (R.E.F.) wishes to thank Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, for their support with a Calouste Gulbenkian Research Fellowship.

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Gosden, R.G., Fowler, R.E. Corpus luteum function in ageing inbred mice. Experientia 35, 128–130 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01917920

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