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RECENTLY, Dr. F. H. A. Marshall (Biol. Rev., 2, 129 ; 1927) has examined the question of the relation of the corpus luteum to the causation of parturition. He has not reached any definite conclusion on the matter, but suggests that the stimulus for parturition may result from an ovarian-pituitary mechanism. Certain investigations which I have been carrying on for some time into the foetal membranes and placentation of the marsupial Bettongia cuniculus have brought in their train observations which appear to show that the ovary has no influence whatever in causing parturition.
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FLYNN, T. The Corpus Luteum and the Cause of Birth. Nature 121, 1020–1021 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/1211020b0
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