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PROGRESSIVE INHIBITION OF UTERINE SENSITIVITY IN RATS FITTED WITH INTRA-UTERINE SUTURES

Summary.: The presence of a thread in a limited region of the rat uterus causes a gain in weight throughout the length of the uterine horn which bears it. In addition, such a thread lessens, but does not inhibit completely, the decidual cell response which can be induced by uterine trauma. This inhibition increases progressively with the length of time that the device has been present. A mechanism is suggested to explain this effect.