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Fetal ripening.

V C Harrison
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Babies do not manifest complications of organ immaturity such as hyaline membrane disease when they are born from a hormone milieu dominated by estrogen as shown by vaginal cytology. Those who are delivered from a progesterone-influenced environment are at risk for developing the problems of immaturity. A fetus probably 'ripens' in late pregnancy under the control of estrogen.

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V C Harrison. 1986. Fetal ripening.. https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-9877(86)90031-9

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