Oviduct and endometrium: Cyclic changes in the primate oviduct and endometrium

Knobil and Neill's Physiology of Reproduction

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 337-381

  Hess, Alexandra P ^a   Nayak, Nihar R ^a   Giudice, Linda C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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