Katarina Heidvall

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article 1992

Production of 12-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid in early pregnant uterine cervix-lack of correlation to mifepristone-induced cervical ripening

·doi:10.1016/0090-6980(92)90129-h

The regulation of cervical ripening in pregnancy may involve arachidonic acid metabolites. We studied the formation of lipoxygenase products in cervical biopsies from twenty nulliparous women requesting a first trimester abortion. The patie…