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Vertebrate reproductive science and technology
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Human menstruation and eicosanoids

MC Rees

Reproduction, Fertility and Development 2(5) 467 - 476
Published: 1990

Abstract

Menstruation is an event restricted to humans and subhuman primates and in which uterine bleeding and contractions occur. Prostaglandins and leukotrienes are thought to play a major role in the normal process of menstruation as well as in the disorders menorrhagia and dysmenorrhoea.

https://doi.org/10.1071/RD9900467

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