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IT has been reported recently1 that after various operations on the albumen-secreting region of the hen's oviduct, oviposition ceased almost entirely. This failure to lay was taken as evidence of a failure to ovulate and was attributed to inhibition at the pituitary gland by direct nervous stimulation from the oviduct.
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Huston, T. M., and Nalbandov, A. V., Endocrin., 52, 149 (1953).
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SYKES, A. Premature Oviposition in the Hen. Nature 172, 1098–1099 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/1721098b0
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