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Human menstruation and eicosanoids
1Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.
Reproduction, Fertility, and Development
|January 1, 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.