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Concentration in the Human Ovarian Follicular Fluid of Radioactive Tracers and Drugs circulating in the Blood

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THE potential hazard of genetic changes induced by radioactive substances and of mutagenic and radiomimetic action of non-radioactive compounds is of current interest. Information, however, as to the intimacy of contact of these substances, when introduced into the human body, with the reproductive cells, particularly the ovum, is scant.

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    KURT N. VON KAULLA, JERRY K. AIKAWA & JOHN D. PETTIGREW

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VON KAULLA, K., AIKAWA, J. & PETTIGREW, J. Concentration in the Human Ovarian Follicular Fluid of Radioactive Tracers and Drugs circulating in the Blood. Nature 182, 1238–1239 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821238b0

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