Abstract
Summary
The injection of LH, gonadotrophin prepared from the urine of pregnant women, and unfractionated sheep pituitary extracts into the nonhypophysectomized partner produced luteinization in the ovaries of the hypophysectomized partner of either hypophysectomized-gonadectomized or hypophysectomized-normal parabiotic rats.
The results indicate that the failure of the ovaries of the hypophysectomized partner of hypophysectomized-gonadectomized pairs to develop corpora lutea is due to an insufficient secretion of LH following gonadectomy rather than to an unresponsive state of the ovaries of the hypophysectomized animal.
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