The effect of estradiol on hormonally stimulable adenylyl cyclase activity and on progesterone production in normal and regressing corpora lutea from control and human chorionic gonadotropin-treated pseudopregnant rabbits.
The effect of estradiol on hormonally stimulable adenylyl cyclase activity and on progesterone production in normal and regressing corpora lutea from control and human chorionic gonadotropin-treated pseudopregnant rabbits.
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雌二醇对对照和人绒毛膜促性腺激素处理的假孕兔的正常和退化黄体中激素刺激的腺苷酸环化酶活性和黄体酮产生的影响。
作者:
S. Day;L. Birnbaumer
The effect of administering a luteolytic dose of hCG (100 IU, iv) to 9-day pseudopregnant rabbits that received either no other treatment (controls) or one of two estradiol (E-1.5 or E-15) treatments was studied. E-1.5 and E-15 consisted of 1.5 μg estradiol (E) every 12 h and 15 μg E every 12 h, respectively; these treatments were administered sc in sesame seed oil starting at 2200 h on day 8 and continued through 2200 h on day 11. Animals were bled daily from days 9–12 and sacrificed between 1000–1100 h on day 12, at which time serum and corpora lutea (CL) progesterone content, weight, and adenylyl cyclase activities stimulated by LH (10 μg/ml) and isoproterenol (Iso; 10−4m) were determined. We found that 1) neither low (E-1.5) nor high (E-15) E treatment prevented functional luteolysis (drop in serum progesterone) induced by hCG; 2) E-15 but not E-1.5 prevented structural luteolysis (CL weight loss) induced by hCG; 3) E-15 but not E-1.5 resulted in CL progesterone levels that, after hCG, were indistingu...