PMID: 6538218Mar 1, 1984Paper

Investigations of the significance of the crepuscular LH peak in the ovulatory cycle of the hen (Gallus domesticus)

The Journal of Endocrinology
P A Johnson, A van Tienhoven

Abstract

The crepuscular (occurring at dusk) peak of LH was characterized and its functional significance in the ovulatory cycle of the hen, Gallus domesticus, examined. Serial blood sampling on the night before the first ovulation (C1) of the sequence was followed by normal ovulations in six out of eight hens whereas blood sampling before a second or third ovulation (C2 or C3) of the sequence resulted in blocked ovulations in six out of seven hens. The difference in incidence of blocked ovulations was significant (P less than 0.02). Associated with normal ovulations was a significant (P less than 0.05) crepuscular peak in plasma LH whereas in those hens in which ovulation was blocked, no rise in LH at onset of darkness was detected. Serial blood sampling of hens on a night when 'lights-off' was delayed revealed a significant (P less than 0.05) crepuscular peak of LH at the time when the lights usually went off, indicating that the rise in LH had the property of a daily rhythm. When a 'lights-off' signal was given 4 h early before a C1 ovulation, a crepuscular peak of LH was induced (P less than 0.05) and preovulatory rises of LH and progesterone were significantly advanced (P less than 0.005 and P less than 0.02 respectively) compared ...Continue Reading

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