Seasonal variation of prolactin in plasma of male goats.
Seasonal variation of prolactin in plasma of male goats.
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雄性山羊血浆中催乳素的季节变化。
DOI:
10.1530/jrf.0.0370095
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发表时间:
1974
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H. Buttle
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作者:
H. Buttle
In the course of studies on the secretion of prolactin by goats in different physiological states, the concentrations of prolactin in the plasma of male goats were measured throughout the year. Three intact male goats aged 5\m=1/2\ (Miljohn), 2\m=1/2\ (Rupert) and 1\m=1/2\ (Minto) years at the beginning of the sampling period were used. The goats were main-tained under the usual husbandry conditions, being turned out to pasture in the summer and kept in individual pens in a separate male goat house in winter; supplementary heating from infra-red lamps was used when necessary. During the breeding season, all three males were used to mate with females in the herd and all three were fertile. Samples of blood were withdrawn from a jugular vein once a week, between 14.30 and 15.30 hours for a period of 15 months. The blood samples were taken by venepuncture into heparinized syringes, centri-fuged at 4\s=deg\Cfor 20 min at 1800 g and the plasma was stored at \m=-\20\s=deg\C until required for assay. The following year (1972), the same three intact males and another, Ulysses, aged 1 year, and also four castrated males were sampled hourly for 24 hr on 22nd to 23rd June and again on 19th to 20th December. All animals were confined to individual pens for 1 week before sampling started. The day before sampling, polyethylene cannulae were inserted into a jugular vein. Supplemen¬ tary lighting needed to take samples at night was used as little as possible.