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Fat: an Index of Œstrogen and Progestogen Activity in the Human Endometrium

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WHILE carrying out a microchemical survey of the human endometrium attention was directed to the remarkable shifts of Sharlach R stainable fats in frozen sections of the human endometrium during the menstrual cycle.

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  1. Department of Anatomy, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

    JOSEPH GILLMAN

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GILLMAN, J. Fat: an Index of Œstrogen and Progestogen Activity in the Human Endometrium. Nature 146, 402 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146402a0

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