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Progesterone pretreatment of ovariectomised rats resulted in a moderate (44%) lowering of the level of nuclear estradiol receptors found in the uterine epithelium 2 h after a single injection of this estrogen.
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Vass, M.A., Green, B. Effect of progesterone pretreatment on the uptake of estradiol-17β by the uterine epithelium of the rat. Cell Tissue Res. 202, 171–175 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00239230
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