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Nair, A.R., Taylor, H.S. (2010). The Mechanism of Menstruation. In: Santoro, N., Neal-Perry, G. (eds) Amenorrhea. Contemporary Endocrinology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-864-5_2
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