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| | EducationGuardian.co.uk | Special Reports | Sune Bergstrom |
 | | His involvement with prostaglandins started at a meeting of the Physiological Society of the Karolinska Institute on October 19 1945, when the renowned Swedish pharmacologist Ulf von Euler proposed a new line of research for Bergstrom. |
 | | In fact, the origins of prostaglandin research were laid in the 1930s when von Euler and M Goldblatt, the British pharmacologist, independently found that seminal fluid and seminal vesicles from most animals, including man, contained a substance that caused contraction of the smooth muscle of the uterus. |
 | | At the Karolinska meeting 10 years later, von Euler asked Bergstrom if he was interested in studying the small amount of his lipid extracts of sheep vesicular glands that von Euler had stored since before the war. |
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