Progesterone: examination of its postulated inhibitory actions on lordosis during the rat estrous cycle.
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POWERS, J. B. AND J. MOREINES. Progesterone: examination of its postulated inhibitory actions on lordosis during the rat estrous cycle. PHYSIOL. BEHAV. 17(3) 493-498, 1976. Three experiments tested whether the inhibitory effects of progesterone could be of physiological significance in regulating the duration of behavioral estrus in female rats. In animals displaying 5 day estrous cycles, a second period of sexual receptivity, one day following the occurrence of spontaneous estrus, could be induced by exogenous hormone administration, regardless of whether the ovaries were intact or were removed during the period over which the exogenous hormones were acting. In a second experiment, acute ovariectomy at various times during the progesterone surge acted only to degrade the quality of receptive behavior subsequently observed, never to enhance it by removing a postulated inhibitory influence. In the final experiment there was some suggestion that progesterone's facilitating effect on lordosis during the later portions of spontaneous estrus were attenuated by prior exposure to ovarian secretions during the early period of behavioral estrus. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that the duration of receptive behavior under physiological conditions is not primarily regulated by inhibitory actions of progesterone, but rather by the quantity and duration of estrogen secretions during the conditioning period.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Physiology & behavior
دوره 17 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1976