[Early chemical sympathectomy and the function of the hypophyseal-gonadal system in sexually immature and adult female rats]

Fiziol Zh Im I M Sechenova. 1995 Oct;81(10):9-14.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Early chemical desympathisation with 6-hydroxydopamine decreased the contents of the follicle-stimulating hormone in the blood serum of 1-month old rats. The steroidogenesis disturbances were more obvious in sexually immature rats in the general desympathisation. In sexually mature rats, these disturbances disappeared. Sympathetic innervation seems to play a major part in development of the reproductive system in rats.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Animals, Newborn
  • Female
  • Gonadal Steroid Hormones / blood
  • Gonadal Steroid Hormones / metabolism
  • Ovary / innervation
  • Ovary / physiology*
  • Oxidopamine
  • Pituitary Gland / innervation
  • Pituitary Gland / physiology*
  • Pituitary Hormones / blood
  • Pituitary Hormones / metabolism
  • Rats
  • Sexual Maturation / physiology*
  • Sympathectomy, Chemical*
  • Sympatholytics
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • Gonadal Steroid Hormones
  • Pituitary Hormones
  • Sympatholytics
  • Oxidopamine