The Effect of Mating Upon Lh Release in Male and Female Voles of the Species Microtus Agrestis
Year: 1975
Type: article
Abstract: Department of Human Anatomy, South Parks Road, Oxford (Received 13th July 1974) Members of the microtine species are probably reflex ovulators. The prairie vole, Microtus ochrogaster (Richmond & Conway, 1969), the meadow vole, M. pennsylvanicus (Clulow & Mallory, 1970), the levant vole, M. guentheri (Bodenheimer & Sulman, 1946), the Californian vole, M. californicus (Greenwald, 1956), and the montane vole, Microtus montanus (Gray, Davis, Zerylnick & Dewsbury, 1974) have all been regarded as coming into this category and Breed (1967) has demonstrated that members of M. agrestis are also reflex ovulators. As ovulation is normally preceded by a surge of LH in the blood, post-coital levels of serum LH were measured by radioimmunoassay in female and male voles (M. agrestis) after mating. The method used was that described by Niswender, Midgley, Monroe & Reichert (1968) for rat LH, as modified by Naftolin & Corker (1971). The voles in these experiments were
Source: Reproduction
Institution: University of Oxford
Language: English
Subfield: Reproductive Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: Medical Research Council
OpenAlex ID: W2064905789