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(1) The majority of substances tested produced a weaker mitotic reaction of the epidermis of the guinea pig nipple after 3 applications (24 h intervals) of the same substance than after a single application.
(2) This decrease in the ability of the epidermic cells to be divided has to be attributed, it seems, to a habit-forming processus and not to an exhaustion of the cells; indeed after two applications of geraniol, the application of a substance of different nature, Hormoestrol, produced in the nipple epidermis a mitotic flare up as intense as that obtained in the epidermis of a nipple not previously treated.
(3) Aldehyde C9 alone, among the substances tested, does not produce a decrease of epidermic mitoses after three applications but induces cellular alterations.
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Bujard, E., Brun, R. & Jadassohn, W. De la réaction mitotique de l'épiderme de la tétine de cobaye à la suite d'applications répétées de diverses substances. Experientia 14, 327–328 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02160389
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