Pregnancy rate in timed-mated, spontaneously cyclic rhesus monkeys, Macaca mulatta
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- 1 November 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Bioscientifica in Reproduction
- Vol. 78 (2) , 705-710
- https://doi.org/10.1530/jrf.0.0780705
Abstract
Summary. After detection of the preovulatory oestradiol-17β peak in blood, females were placed with a male and left undisturbed during mating (N = 28, 94 cycles) or were exposed to serial diagnostic laparoscopy (1–4 occasions) to monitor ovulation (N = 87, 224 cycles). A total of 86 pregnancies resulted from timed mating in the 318 menstrual cycles (27% rate). When periovulatory laparoscopy was performed, the pregnancy rate was 22·3%. In the absence of laparoscopy the pregnancy rate was 38·3% (P < 0·003). These pregnancy rates are similar to those of women and show an adverse effect of laparoscopy on pregnancy rate.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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