Abstract
THE ABILITY of anti'gonadotropic serum, non-specific in nature, to in hibitthe effect of the endogenous secretion of an animal's pituitary has bee nreported previously. Parkes and Rowlands (i) have shown that nonspecific anti'gonadotropic sera' prepared by prolonged injections of beef pituitary, can inhibit ovulation in the rabbit. Rowlands (2) also indicated that such anti'gonadotropic serum suppresses ovulation in the pubertal rat but is un' able to prevent corpus luteum formation in the adult animal. Collip (3) was able to make normal cyclic rats acyclic by injections of anti'gonadotropic sera prepared by prolonged administration of sheep pituitary in the lamb. Thompson (4) produced effects similar to those of hypophysectomy in the guineapig thyroid by injections of anti-thyrotropic hormone. Meyer and Hert8(5) have shown that the ovarian hypertrophy which results when an immature female rat is placed in parabiosis with a castrated male or female littermate,
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