The history of the estrogenic hormones has its start at the turn of the century. In the year 1900, Knauer (1) showed that auto-transplanted ovaries in spayed animals could renew the estrous cycle. From this he concluded that the female gonads played an important part in the regulation of estrus and the production of ova and were thus organs of internal secretion. Thirteen years later, Fellner (2) showed that extracts of human placenta were potent in producing estrus in spayed animals; therefore the placenta was also involved in the metabolism of estrus-producing material. [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.118105 |
| Date | January 1965 |
| Creators | Purre, Ene. |
| Contributors | Hobkirk, R. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Experimental Medicine. ) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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