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  • Title: Ultrastructural changes of the corpora lutea in LH-treated cyclic female rats.
    Author: Boehm N, Fabre M.
    Journal: Z Mikrosk Anat Forsch; 1979; 93(2):266-82. PubMed ID: 575253.
    Abstract:
    As LH is capable of stimulating ovarian progesterone secretion at the beginning of 4-day cycles, it was the aim of this work to determine whether corpora lutea formed at the end of a preceding cycle are responsible for the increase in ovarian progesterone secretion. 4-day cyclic female rats were injected with LH on dioestrus I at 8...9 a.m. (64 microgram/100 g/b.w. expressed in terms of NIH-LH-S3). An increase in the peripheral blood progesterone concentration was shown to occur on the morning of dioestrus II in LH-treated females when compared to control females. Concomitantly enlarged mitochondria, numerous membranes of the smooth endoplasmic reticulum and a decrease in the number of lipid droplets were observed in LH-treated females. Inversely signs of involution of the corpora lutea were noted from the morning of dioestrus I to that of dioestrus II in noninjected females. It is concluded that LH-induced progesterone increase at dioestrus II results from the activation of the corpora lutea formed at the end of the preceding cycle.
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