“…Although exhibited some protease activity when tested with a chromogenic substrate (Caygill, 1977 ai, 1979;Franchimont et ai, 1979;Scott et al, 1980;Miyamoto et al, 1985), one used female rats (Sasamoto et al, 1987), one used young (18-20 days old) male rats (Steinberger & Steinberger, 1976), one had a short-term (1 h preincubation, 4 h incubation with inhibin) culture of whole pituitary glands from rats (Sheth, 1987) (Welschen et al, 1975); ovine FSH was measured according to a published method (McNeilly et ai, 1976).…”