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THE observations reported below were made during the course of a preliminary series of experiments with purified fractions of pollack pituitary glands, a study which I am undertaking in collaboration with Dr. A. E. Wilhelmi, Department of Biochemistry, Emory University, with the support of a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation.
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PICKFORD, G. Induction of a Spawning Reflex in Hypophysectomized Killifish. Nature 170, 807–808 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/170807b0
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