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Estrogens influence fertility and infertility in animals. This chapter reviews the use of estrogen as a contraceptive through the regulation of its production and action. It is concluded that the use of specific agonists and antagonists of estrogen action that avoid the global and unwanted side effects of estrogen offers new potential methods of contraception.
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Support from the National Health & Medical Research Council of Australia (RegKeys #241000, #441101 and #550900) and Division of Intramural Research of the NIEHS/NIH to KSK.
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Findlay, J.K., Liew, S.H., Simpson, E.R., Korach, K.S. (2010). Estrogen Signaling in the Regulation of Female Reproductive Functions. In: Habenicht, UF., Aitken, R. (eds) Fertility Control. Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, vol 198. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02062-9_2
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