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Metabolism of Ribonucleic Acid in the Endometrium of the Rabbit during Early Pregnancy

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Phosphate ions are known to be taken up more quickly by the endometrium of pregnant rabbits between the third and the fifth days after mating. It has now been shown that this increase in the amount of phosphate is accompanied by a marked increase in the rate of synthesis of RNA over the same period of the pregnancy.

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  1. M. L. VITTORELLI: British Council Scholar, 1964–66

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  1. Agricultural Research Council Unit of Reproductive Physiology and Biochemistry, University of Cambridge,

    M. L. VITTORELLI, R. A. P. HARRISON & C. LUTWAK-MANN

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VITTORELLI, M., HARRISON, R. & LUTWAK-MANN, C. Metabolism of Ribonucleic Acid in the Endometrium of the Rabbit during Early Pregnancy. Nature 214, 890–892 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214890a0

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