Background: To determine the effect of ovarian stimulation on the height of the epithelial cells of fallopian tubes and development of ovarian follicles and corpus luteum in NMRI mice. Materials and Methods: Forty female NMRI mice of 6 to 8 weeks were selected and divided into 4 groups: control group, 10 mice that were injected with saline. The second group of 10 mice that were injected with 7 ...

GÂFVELS, M. 1987. Blood flow and metabolism in the corpus luteum of the rat. In vivo and in vitro studies on the ovarian luteal and follicular compartment of the rat. Umeå University Medical Dissertations, New Series no I8 6. ISSN 03^6-6612. Department of Physiology, University of Umeå, S-9OI 87 Umeå, Sweden. The ovary undergoes cyclic changes in follicular growth and luteogenesis due to the ac...

It has been shown that immune cells, particularly macrophages, accumulate in the corpus luteum during luteolysis. This study aimed to investigate the effect of maternal recognition of pregnancy on the localization and numbers of macrophages in the human corpus luteum. Corpora lutea (n = 12) were obtained from normally cycling women at the time of hysterectomy and were dated on the basis of seri...

Cyclical formation and regression of the ovarian corpus luteum is required for reproduction. During luteal regression, the microvasculature of the corpus luteum is extensively disrupted. Prostaglandin F2α, a primary signal for luteal regression, induces the expression of transforming growth factor β1 (TGFB1) in the corpus luteum. This study determined the actions of TGFB1 on microvascular endot...

Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is considered to be one of the factors which regulate relaxin secretion in humans. Serum immunoreactive relaxin levels are increased and are detectable by radioimmunoassay both in normal and molar pregnancy. Circulating hCG levels are increased in trophoblastic disease. In the present study, relaxin and hCG levels were sequentially measured in patients with in...

The corpus luteum is a temporary endocrine structure in mammals that plays an important role in the female reproductive cycle and is formed from a ruptured and ovulated follicle with rapid angiogenesis. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is thought to be vital in normal and abnormal angiogenesis in the ovary, but the molecular regulation of luteal VEGF expression during corpus luteum dev...

The physiological regulation of fertile reproductive cycle in mammals depends on interactions between hypothalamus-pituitary, ovarian and uterine stimuli. Over the past 20 years, much has been learned about the interrelation between the affluent and effluent lymph and vascular drainage in and around both ovarian and uterine tissues. An essential feature in the regulation of the fertile cycle is...