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. 1992 Dec;167(6):1563-4.
doi: 10.1016/0002-9378(92)91740-2.

Lack of normal increase in saliva estriol/progesterone ratio in women with labor induced at 42 weeks' gestation

D J Moran  1 , H H McGarrigle, G C Lachelin
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Lack of normal increase in saliva estriol/progesterone ratio in women with labor induced at 42 weeks' gestation

D J Moran et al. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1992 Dec.

Abstract

Saliva specimens were collected approximately every 6 hours from day 280 to day 294 by 16 women who labored on day 294. There was a normal rise in the mean saliva estriol/progesterone ratio in the six who went into labor spontaneously but no change in the 10 whose labor was induced.

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