Abstract
To validate further the existence of a specific hypothalamic follicle stimulating hormone releasing factor (FSHRF), stalk-median eminence (SME) fragments from sheep and whole hypothalami from male rats were purified by gel filtration on Sephadex G-25, and the gonadotropin-releasing activity on hemipituitaries of rats incubated in vitro was determined by bioassay and compared with the radioimmunoassayable luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) and lamprey gonadotropin releasing hormone (I-GnRH) activities in the fractions. The FSH-releasing fractions eluted in the same sequence of tubes from the Sephadex column found earlier by in vivo bioassay and were clearly separated from the immunoassayable and bioassay-able LHRH. The radioimmunoassay (RIA) for I-GnRH recognized equally I-GnRH-I and -III but had negligible cross-reactivity with LHRH. Fractionation of rat hypothalamic extract by gel filtration on Sephadex G-25 revealed three peaks of I-GnRH determined by RIA, all of which eluted prior to the peak...
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