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The discovery of progesterone is relatively recent, being 50 years old in 1984. Butenandt and Westphal reported that in their first isolation in 1934, the ovaries of 50000 sows were required to obtain approximately 20 mg of pure corpus luteum hormone1.
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Sitruk-Ware, R. (1986). Progestins. In: Notelovitz, M., van Keep, P. (eds) The Climacteric in Perspective. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4145-8_35
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