Abstract
Follicle rupture is essential to fertility, and many attempts have been made to monitor this biochemically. Probably the commonest method is to measure plasma progesterone levels, but the literature gives different levels as criteria of ovulation, some reports giving values as low as 1 or 2 ng/ml (3.2-6.8 nmo1/1)1,2, others as high3 as 30 nmol/1. It is the purpose of this communication to try to determine the appropriate lower limit and to explain why published results vary so greatly.
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Davis, J.C., Abdulla, U., Diver, M.J., Hipkin, L.J. (1984). Serum progesterone levels as a criterion of ovulation. In: Thompson, W., Harrison, R.F., Bonnar, J. (eds) Ovulation and its Disorders. Studies in Fertility and Sterility, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5602-5_5
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