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Biology of Reproduction, Vol 31, 1000-1006, Copyright © 1984 by Society for the Study of Reproduction

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Induction of relaxin secretion in rhesus monkeys by human chorionic gonadotropin: dependence on the age of the corpus luteum of the menstrual cycle

JS Ottobre, WE Nixon and RL Stouffer

Peripheral concentrations of immunoreactive relaxin are undetectable in primates during the nonfertile menstrual cycle, but become measurable during the interval when chorionic gonadotropin (CG) rises in early pregnancy. The objectives of the current study were to determine if exogenous CG, administered in a dosage regimen which invoked patterns and concentrations resembling those of early pregnancy, would induce relaxin secretion in nonpregnant rhesus monkeys, and whether the induction was dependent on the age of the corpus luteum (CL) at the onset of treatment. Female rhesus monkeys received twice-daily i.m. injections of increasing doses of human CG (hCG) for 10 days beginning in the early (n = 4), mid (n = 6) or late (n = 4) luteal phase of the menstrual cycle [5.3 +/- 0.3, 8.3 +/- 0.5, and 12.0 +/- 0.4 days after the midcycle luteinizing hormone (LH) surge, respectively; means +/- SEM]. Whereas immunoreactive relaxin was nondetectable in the luteal phase of posttreatment cycles, detectable levels of relaxin were observed in 2 of 4, 5 of 6, and 3 of 4 monkeys during hCG treatment in the early, mid and late luteal phase, respectively. Although CG treatment rapidly enhance progesterone levels, the appearance of relaxin was deferred; relaxin was first detectable 9.0 +/- 1.0 and 4.7 +/- 1.9 days after the onset of CG treatment at early and late luteal phases. Patterns of relaxin concentrations differed among groups (P less than 0.05, ANOVA; split plot design) and relaxin levels were lowest (P less than 0.01) in monkeys treated during the early luteal phase.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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