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DURING the course of a recent investigation of the steroids present in the follicular fluid of the mare1, an unidentified αβ-unsaturated 17-ketosteroid was detected, and it seemed possible that this might represent one of the intermediates in the conversion of androst-4-ene-3,17-dione (androstenedione) to œstrone.
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SHORT, R. Identification of 19-Norandrostenedione in Follicular Fluid. Nature 188, 232 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/188232a0
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