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Platelet-activating factor (PAF) exhibits a variety of biological activities and it be thought to involved in various pathophysiological process. In this paper, some studies were summarized about those roles of PAF in a variety productive processes of female of mammalian that include fertilization, implantation and parturition, and that was involved in the concentration, synthesis, degradation and some assay methods of PAF. The relationship between PAF and early pregnancy factor (EPF) was reviewed.
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Yutang, L., Shuqin, S., Zhongwu, S. et al. The actions, detection and synthesis of platelet-activating factor (PAF) in mammalian pregnancy. Journal of Forestry Research 9, 283–287 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02912335
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