Influence of nicotine, cotinine, anabasine and cigarette smoke extract on human granulosa cell progesterone and estradiol synthesis

To reveal the well known effect of smoking on the incidence of early abortion, the possible effects of cigarette alkaloids on progesterone and estradiol synthesis were investigated. A suspected cause for early spontaneous abortion is corpus luteum insufficiency. The present experiments evaluate the...

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