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Bioessays · ISSN (e) 1521-1878 · 1 paper in corpus
article 2011
doi:10.1002/bies.201100099 ·PMID:22057551

Why do humans menstruate while most mammals do not? Here, we present our answer to this long-debated question, arguing that (i) menstruation occurs as a mechanistic consequence of hormone-induced differentiation of the endometrium (referred…