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The response of mouse ovaries maintained in organ culture to follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH) and human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) was assessed using quantitative histological and radioimmunoassay techniques.
In terms of the induction of preovulatory maturation in follicular oocytes, 1 μg FSH/ml medium was as effective as 10 μg LH/ml. The lowest doses of HCG and LH used (0·2 i.u./ml and 1 μg/ml respectively) had no effect on oocyte maturation, whereas the response to FSH was virtually unchanged irrespective of dose (1–10 μg/ml). When the level of progesterone in the medium at the end of organ culture was used as an index of ovarian response, LH was more effective than FSH and HCG, although all the hormones induced a significant increase, irrespective of dose.
These results are discussed in terms of the mode of action of gonadotrophins in the processes culminating in ovulation.
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Foetal human testes (12–22 weeks gestation), maintained in organ culture, were treated with human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) and the amount of testosterone produced compared with control cultures. In all cases the testes produced testosterone, but from the 13th to 18th week of gestation significantly more testosterone was produced by, and the Leydig cell hyperplasia was maintained in, the HCG stimulated organ cultures. It is suggested that HCG is ultimately responsible for differentiation of the human male external genitalia.
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The response of mouse ovaries maintained in organ culture to prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and prostaglandin F2α (F2α) was assessed using quantitative histological and radioimmunoassay procedures.
Prostaglandin E2 induced histological changes in the cultured follicles comparable to those induced by human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) and the increase in the number of oocytes undergoing preovulatory maturation over the control value was the same irrespective of the treatment (PGE2 alone, HCG alone, or PGE2 + HCG). The amount of progesterone/ ml of culture medium was also significantly higher with these preparations than in control cultures (about 125 ng/ml compared with 57 ng/ml).
By contrast, 5 μg PGF2α/ml medium increased neither the number of oocytes undergoing maturation nor the concentration of progesterone in the culture medium. The latter increased when the dose of PGF2α was increased to 30 μg/ml, although the proportion of oocytes beyond the dictyate stage remained at the control level. There was no augmentation in the response (above the level for HCG alone) when HCG and PGF2α were added to the explant medium simultaneously. These results are discussed in terms of the possible mechanism of action of the various preparations.
