CHANGES IN PLASMA PROLACTIN CONCENTRATION DURING THE OVULATORY CYCLE OF THE CHICKEN
- 1 March 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Bioscientifica in Journal of Endocrinology
- Vol. 72 (3) , 401-402
- https://doi.org/10.1677/joe.0.0720401
Abstract
Changes in the plasma prolactin level during the ovulatory cycle of the chicken are described. Depressed prolactin levels were found immediately before the preovulatory LH [luteinizing hormone] surge; this might facilitate secretion of ovarian steroids which then exert a positive feedback effect on LH release. The increase in prolactin concentration after the LH peak might be involved in the inhibition of steroidogenesis, suggesting an inhibitory role of prolactin.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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