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In the ovarian cycle of common marmosets, serum progesterone began to increase at two to three days after estradiol-17β or LH surge, attained a peak of 25–70 ng/ml and then declined to a level of under 2 ng/ml before the ensuing rise in estradiol-17β and LH. Serum estradiol-17β increased to 700–5,500 pg/ml during the luteal phase, synchronizing with progesterone. It is suggested that the corpus luteum secreted estradiol-17β as well as progesterone. The cycle length as determined from the interval between successive LH surges was approximately 28 days. During the luteal phase, the levels of progesterone and estradiol-17β were higher than in Old World monkeys and women, but marmosets were not accompanied by any clinical symptoms due to excessive progesterone and estradiol-17β. This suggests that such unresponsiveness to progesterone and estradiol-17β in marmosets reflects the small amount of estradiol-17β receptor and presumably also the lower function of the post receptor system.
Recovery of the post-partum ovarian cycle in two marmosets differed from that observed in Old World monkeys and women. The first LH surge was found on the ninth and tenth day after parturition and the first ovulation led to the next pregnancy. This suggests that the suckling stimulus of newborns in the common marmoset does not cause any delay in recovery of the ovarian cycle. In three cases of abortion, the recovery of the ovarian cycle was almost the same as that in the case of normal parturition: the first LH surge appeared on the 10th, 14th, and 34th day after abortion.
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Torii, R., Koizumi, H., Tanioka, Y. et al. Serum LH, progesterone and estradiol-17β levels throughout the ovarian cycle, during the early stage of pregnancy and after the parturition and the abortion in the common marmoset,Callithrix jacchus . Primates 28, 229–238 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02382572
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