THE PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE OF OCULAR TRANSPLANTS OF THE SEMINAL VESICLE IN FEMALE RABBITS

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Abstract
Vesicular transplants in the ant. chamber of the eye of [female] rabbits show the normal daily variations in size observed in similar transplants in [male] rabbits. The response of ocular transplants of the seminal vesicle in both [male] and [female] rabbits to injs. of androgens and estrogens demonstrates that vesicular tissue is sensitive to both sex hormones, and is therefore a true ambisexual tissue. The increase in size of the transplants after injs. of either androgen or estrogen is caused by hypertrophy and hyperplasia of smooth muscle, hyperplasia of epithelium, congestion of the blood vessels, and edema of the stroma.

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