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Revisiting Reproduction: Prematurity and the puzzle of progesterone resistance

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Figure 1: Molecular signaling in parturition.

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  1. Jeeyeon Cha and Sudhansu K. Dey are in the Division of Reproductive Sciences, Yasushi Hirota, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.,

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Hirota, Y., Cha, J. & Dey, S. Revisiting Reproduction: Prematurity and the puzzle of progesterone resistance. Nat Med 16, 529–531 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0510-529

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