A sex difference in the rat pituitary FSH response to unilateral gonadectomy as revealed in plasma radioimmunoassays.
A sex difference in the rat pituitary FSH response to unilateral gonadectomy as revealed in plasma radioimmunoassays.
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血浆放射免疫测定揭示了大鼠垂体 FSH 对单侧性腺切除反应的性别差异。
作者:
V. Ramirez;C. Sawyer
Prepubertal and adult female and male rats were unilaterally gonadectomized and killed 6 days later to determine the degree of compensatory ovarian (COH) or testicular (CTH) hypertrophy. External jugular vein blood was drawn, under light ether anesthesia at different times after surgery, for radioimmunoassay of FSH and LEI. Unilateral orchidectomy was followed by a clear-cut CTH and by sharp increases in blood FSH concentration 2 days after the operation, values which remained at a high level in adults but continued to rise in immature animals. Blood LH levels in adult males did not change significantly. Testosterone propionate inhibited CTH and the rise in plasma FSH. In adult female rats unilateral ovariectomy on the first day of diestrus was followed by a transient sharp rise in blood FSH, values that returned to initial levels by 36 hr post-surgery and thereafter fluctuated about these levels. Estradiol berizoate treatment, starting after the rise in FSH, inhibited COH, but blood FSH and LH levels par...