Title : A role for the adrenal cortex in the onset of cystic ovarian follicles in the sow.

Pub. Date : 1978 Oct

PMID : 570445






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1 Exposure to an environmental temperature of 32 degrees C for three hours or injection of 1 IU/kg bodyweight of ACTH for each of two ovariectomized sows resulted in an elevation in progesterone values to 5-7 ng/ml plasma from basal levels of 1-2 ng/ml and a rise in total glucocorticosteroids from basal levels of 1 or 2 microgram/100 ml plasma to 4-10 microgram/100 ml. Progesterone proopiomelanocortin Homo sapiens