If long-term ovariectomized rats are treated with the long-acting barbiturate, sodium phenobarbitone, the well-known pulsatile secretion of LH is depressed, resulting in a constant, still raised, plasma LH level. This indicates that in all probability ovariectomized rats secrete LH in both a tonic and a pulsatile way, only the latter being sensitive to phenobarbitone treatment.
Constant infusions of synthetic LH-RH into phenobarbitone-treated ovariectomized rats induced a steadily increasing plasma LH concentration without pulsations, whereas pulsatile infusions of the releasing hormone, following a constant infusion, resulted in a pulsatile secretion of LH. This indicates that the pulsatile secretion of LH in ovariectomized rats is the result of a pulsatile secretion of the hypothalamic releasing hormone; the pituitary gland itself is not the site of origin of the phenomenon.
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