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INDUCTION OF LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE BY GONADAL STEROIDS IN THE OVARIECTOMIZED DOMESTIC HEN

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Authors:
SUSAN C. WILSON
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P. J. SHARP
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1677/joe.0.0710087
Volume/Issue:
Volume 71: Issue 1
Article Type:
Research Article
Page Range:
87–98
Online Publication Date:
Oct 1976
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SUMMARY

The ability of intramuscular injections of gonadal steroids to exert a positive feedback action on LH secretion was investigated in the ovariectomized hen. Plasma LH was measured by radioimmunoassay.

Single injections of progesterone (dose range: 0·05–10 mg/kg) or oestradiol benzoate (dose range: 0·01–1 mg/kg) did not result in an increase in plasma LH concentration. After priming with 0·1 mg oestradiol benzoate/kg on alternate days for 7 days and with 0·5 mg progesterone/kg on days 5, 6 and 7, a single injection of progesterone on day 8 (dose range: 0·1–2 mg/kg) caused the plasma LH concentration to start increasing after 15 to 30 min. Peak LH concentration was reached around 1·5–2 h after injection. The magnitude of LH response to progesterone was dose related. In contrast, a single injection of oestradiol benzoate (dose range: 0·01–1 mg/kg) failed to stimulate LH release in the oestrogen– progesterone primed ovariectomized (O-P-OVX) hen. A single injection of testosterone (dose range: 0·1–2·0 mg/kg) failed to stimulate LH release in ten out of 12 O-P-OVX hens. A small increase in LH secretion was observed in the two remaining birds.

When oestrogen or progesterone was omitted from the priming schedule, a LH positive feedback response to a single injection of progesterone was not observed. Increasing or decreasing the amount of oestrogen or progesterone in the priming schedule modified the LH response to a single injection of progesterone on the day following the last priming injection. This suggested that a critical oestrogen to progesterone ratio was required to prime the LH positive feedback mechanism.

It is suggested that, in the hen, the release of LH is facilitated by the positive feedback effect of a combination of oestrogen and progesterone in a two-phase process. The first is the priming phase, which depends on the presence in the blood of oestrogen and progesterone; the second is the inductive phase, which depends only on an incremental change in plasma progesterone concentration. Oestrogen is not involved in the inductive phase.

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Print ISSN:
0022-0795
Online ISSN:
1479-6805
Volume 71: Issue 1
Page(s):
12
Article Type:
Research Article
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 1976
Online Publication Date:
Oct 1976