| Should consider managing cycle to ensure mare has ovulated and finished oestrus before start of competition. |
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| If patients ovulated in six subsequent cycles, no further treatment was given. |
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| A current theory is that the eggs are ovulated through the cloacal pore and are expelled under pressure by muscular contractions. |
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| The corpus luteum secretes hormones that prepare the uterus for a possible pregnancy in the event the ovulated ovum was fertilized. |
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| Only a few of the ovulated eggs are fertilized at the beginning of the ovulatory period, and subsequent eggs are not fertilized. |
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| Another potential approach is xenografting human ovarian tissue in immunodeficient mice, where human follicles can be grown to antral stages and ovulated. |
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