Failure of Portal System to Inactivate Completely Ovarian Secretions in Immature Rats

Werthessen, Nicholas T.; Field, N. S.

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“…In two pilot experiments we also found that the body weight and body length of ovariectomized rats was not affected by an ovarian graft in the spleen or by the presence of oestrogen-containing implants (Clark et al 1984). These results differ from those of Werthessen & Field (1950) who found that the body weight gains of transplanted rats were intermediate between those of intact and ovariectomized groups.…”

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Ovarian–splenic autotransplantation: evidence that oestrogen does not inhibit hepatic somatomedin generation

Clark¹,

Holder²

1984

Journal of Endocrinology

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This study was designed to test the hypothesis that oestrogens inhibit growth by reducing hepatic somatomedin generation. We have attempted to deliver oestrogen preferentially to the liver by transplanting ovarian tissue into the spleen. Four groups of rats were compared: intact, ovariectomized, ovariectomized with successful ovarian transplants, and animals where due to adhesions between the transplant and body wall and/or viscera oestrogens reached the general circulation. Plasma levels of LH and FSH, uterine weights, ovarian weights and vaginal smears supported this classification of animals. Ovariectomy increased body weight, body length, bioassayable serum somatomedin levels and 35SO4(2-) uptake into costal cartilage in vivo compared with intact rats and animals with adhesions. Preferentially exposing the liver to oestrogen did not suppress the increased growth, serum somatomedin activity or uptake of 35SO4(2-) in vivo observed in ovariectomized animals. The results suggest that the presence of oestrogen in the general circulation is associated with growth suppression and lowered somatomedin bioactivity while the presence of oestrogen in the hepatic portal circulation has little effect on body growth. We conclude that oestrogen does not appear to inhibit growth in the rat by influencing the release of somatomedin from the liver. It also seems that serum somatomedin concentration may not reflect liver somatomedin generation but overall production throughout the body.

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