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ct-9270	Vanderwall, Dirk ; Kinney, Dustin ; Clement, Holly ; Rigas, Johanna ; Wilson, David 	Effect of human chorionic gonadotropin treatment on the duration of oxytocin-induced prolonged corpus luteum function in mares	2023	4	.pdf	application/pdf	2912	112	44	In contrast, oxytocin treatment further and beyond day 60 rendered a more robust PGF2α secretory response and CL function was more likely to decline rapidly after treatment.12 Considering that prolonged CL function occurs spontaneously in mares,11 return of the luteolytic process may have developed naturally as a means of ensuring that these mares return to a cyclic state allowing them to have an opportunity for breeding and establishment of pregnancy, which is otherwise precluded during the period of prolonged CL function. Although there was no dif- ference in the duration of CL function, daily blood progester- one concentrations were higher (p < 0.0001) in hCG-treated mares compared to control mares (Figure 1; 7.8 ± 4.1 vs. 5.1 ± 2.7 ng/ml	cache/ct-9270.pdf	txt/ct-9270.txt