Abstract
The effects of intramuscular progesterone administration (20 mg·day −1) on plasma concentrations of 13,14-dihydro-15-keto-prostaglandin F 2α (PGFM-pulmonary metabolite of prostaglandin F 2α) and oxytocin were examined in seventeen goats after either bilateral ovariectomy, hysterectomy or during days 12–16 of the estrous cycle. Daily mean values of PGFM in animals treated with progesterone after ovariectomy were significantly greater ( P<0.001) than in their corresponding controls on the last two treatment days (10 and 11); concentrations of oxytocin, however, remained at or near the limits of assay sensitivity. In hysterectomized goats PGFM concentrations remained extremely low and oxytocin release appeared steady rather than pulsatile. In the intact animals, undergoing luteolysis, daily mean concentrations of both PGFM and oxytocin were significantly greater ( P<0.01) in progesterone-treated goats than in their oil-treated controls; furthermore, in the progesterone-treated goats, increases in PGFM concentrations, observed after the peaks of progesterone, were either coincident with or prior to pulses of oxytocin. These results demonstrate that uterine PGF 2α stimulates the pulsatile release of oxytocin from the ovary during luteolysis in the goat.
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