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Monthly rhythm of libido in married women

Hart RD 1960 British Medical Journal

Since classical times there has been discussion on the existence or non-existence of variations in libido in women during the menstrual cycle.*This discussion reached its peak in the nineteenth and ea...

Menstrual CycleBody Literacy

Hypotensive action of progesterone in experimental and human hypertension

Armstrong JG 1959 Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (New York, N.Y.)

Summary(1) Progesterone administration to rats and dogs with experimental hypertension and to humans with primary arterial hypertension resulted in a decline in blood pressure levels. Blood pressures ...

Cardiovascular EffectsHormonal Treatment

The clinical effectiveness of contraceptive methods

Tietze C 1959 American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Physiologic effectiveness is the measure of protection against unwanted pregnancy afforded by a specific contraceptive method under ideal conditions ie, used consistently and according to instructions...

Clinical MeasurementContraceptive EfficacyComparative Studies

Some aspects of the urinary excretion of pregnanediol in pregnancy

Shearman RP 1959 The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire

Results: Normal Pregnancy. Eleven pregnant women were studied at weekly intervals for periods ranging from 24 to 32 weeks. Three hundred and ten estimations were done in this group. An additional 68 a...

Urinary MetabolitesPregnanediol ExcretionPregnanediol Assay

Clinical effect of human pituitary follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)

Gemzell CA et al. 1958 The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

A partially purified follicle-stimulating hormone preparation (human pituitary FSH) has been obtained from human pituitaries. The ovarian response to this preparation was studied in 7 amenorrheic wome...

FSH TherapyGonadotropin TreatmentEstrogen and Pregnanediol Excretion

Masculinization of the female fetus associated with administration of oral and intramuscular progestins during gestation: non-adrenal female pseudohermaphrodism

Wilkins L et al. 1958 The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

There are relatively few reports of female pseudohermaphrodism not associated with congenital adrenal hyperplasia. The writers report 21 cases of females born with partial masculinization of the exter...

Fetal SafetyProgestin Treatment ComplicationsProgestin-Induced Masculinization

The effect of progesterone on the development of mouse eggs in vitro

Whitten WK 1957 The Journal of Endocrinology

SUMMARY 1. The action of progesterone on the development of the mouse ovum from the eight-celled stage to the blastula has been studied in vitro . 2. Concentrations of progesterone below 2 μg/ml. prod...

Embryo Development EffectsIn Vitro Embryo CultureIn Vitro Studies

Progesterone block

Csapo AI 1956 The American Journal of Anatomy

In 1899 Gustav Born advanced the theory that the corpus luteum of the ovary is a gland of internal secretion, its activity being a prerequisite for the implantation and early development of the fertil...

Uterine QuiescenceProgesterone Block TheoryPregnancy Maintenance

Progesterone in human blood and tissues

Zander J 1954 Nature

THE problem as to whether progesterone is present in human peripheral blood, and in what concentrations, has not yet been solved satisfactorily.

Blood MeasurementProgesterone DetectionSteroid Hormone Measurement

Pregnanediol determinations in the clinic and in research

de Watteville H 1951 The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

PREGNANEDIOL was first isolated by Marrian (1) in 1929, when he was engaged in thepurification of “oestrin” from pregnancy urine. He described the properties of this new “unidentified solid alcohol” v...

Pregnanediol MeasurementUrinary PregnanediolSteroid Metabolite Determination

Ovarian resection for the relief of sterility

Meaker SR 1950 Fertility and Sterility

More than twenty-five years ago Edward Reynolds gave an excellent description of the polycystic ovary, and expressed the opinion that ovarian surgery was the most important single feature in the treat...

Wedge ResectionSurgical InterventionOvarian Surgery

Some newer aspects of the management of infertility

Jones GE 1949 Journal of the American Medical Association

A discussion of infertility would be incomplete without a comment on the changing concepts of the definition. For statistical purposes it may be necessary to retain the criterion of a three year barre...

Definition and CriteriaHistorical PerspectivesDelayed Childbearing

Cyclic changes in the physical and chemical properties of cervical mucus

Pommerenke WT 1946 American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Cervical mucus at midcycle is increased in amount, acellularity, water content, and fluidity. Furthermore, cervical mucus at this time is well supplied with carbohydrate and presumably amino acids. Fr...

Cervical MucusCervical Mucus ChangesMucus Composition

Amenorrhea Associated with Bilateral Polycystic Ovaries

Stein IF et al. 1935 American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

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Historical DefinitionPolycystic Ovarian MorphologyAnovulatory Amenorrhea

Premenstrual tension

Frank RT 1931 Archives of Neurology And Psychiatry

My attention has been increasingly directed to a large group of women who are handicapped by premenstrual disturbances of manifold nature. It is well known that normal women suffer varying degrees of ...

Premenstrual SyndromeLuteal Phase SymptomsPremenstrual Hormonal Changes