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“The high level of sexual steroids also influences cholecystic kinetics: progesterone , in particular, negatively affects the contractile response to cholecystokinin-pancreozymin stimulus.”
“Gallbladder from animals on progesterone exhibited a marked decrease in contractile response to CCK and bethanechol compared with controls (P < 0.05).”
“ progesterone pretreatment produced right-ward shifts in the acetylcholine and octapeptide of cholecystokinin curves that were characterized by significant decreases in the maximal contractile response.”