Cervical softening with mifepristone (RU 486) after pretreatment with naproxen

Progesterone receptor blockage

M. Bygdeman, M.L. Swahn · Contraception · 1985 · 252 citations

Termination of Early Pregnancy by the Progesterone Antagonist RU 486 (Mifepristone)

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Medicine, Obstetrics, Pharmacology +12

Endogenous levels of prostaglandin F2α and its main metabolites in plasma and endometrium of normal and dysmenorrheic women

V. Lundström, K. Green · American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology · 1978 · 225 citations

Medicine, Gynecology, Obstetrics +11

Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy with Mifepristone (RU 486) and a Prostaglandin Analogue

Louise Silvestre, Cathérine Dubois, Maguy Renault et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1990 · 187 citations · Full text

Medicine, Obstetrics, Pharmacotherapy +13

The Stimulation of Prostaglandin Production by Two Antiprogesterone Steroids in Human Endometrial Cells

R.W. Kelly, D. Healy, Maureen Cameron et al. · The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · 1986 · 93 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Pharmacology +9