Word: luteum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remained to be proved that Dr. Hisaw had actually discovered a new hormone. He had found relatively large amounts of the relaxing substance (whose presence was proved by its effect on guinea pigs) in the corpus luteum (a yellow mass in the ovary) and in the placenta of various animals. But he had failed to determine its chemical composition. And his theory seemed to be knocked into a cocked hat when several European investigators succeeded in relaxing animals with injections of the well-known ovarian hormones, estrogen and progesterone...
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