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Dramatic early increase in uterine eosinophils after oestrogen administration

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Two separate receptor systems for oestrogens, thought to be involved in independent mechanisms of oestrogen action, have been found to exist in vitro and in vivo in the rat uterus. These are the cytosol-nuclear receptor system and the eosinophil receptor system1–3.

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TCHERNITCHIN, A., ROORIJCK, J., TCHERNITCHIN, X. et al. Dramatic early increase in uterine eosinophils after oestrogen administration. Nature 248, 142–143 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/248142a0

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