EFFECTS OF PROSTAGLANDINS, CYCLIC AMP, SEMINAL PLASMA, INDOMETHACIN, AND OTHER FACTORS ON OVIPOSITION IN THE JAPANESE QUAIL, COTURNIX COTURNIX JAPONICA

F. HERTELENDY

doi:10.1530/jrf.0.0400087

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EFFECTS OF PROSTAGLANDINS, CYCLIC AMP, SEMINAL PLASMA, INDOMETHACIN, AND OTHER FACTORS ON OVIPOSITION IN THE JAPANESE QUAIL, COTURNIX COTURNIX JAPONICA

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1530/jrf.0.0400087

Volume/Issue:: Volume 40: Issue 1

Page Range:: 87–93

Article Type:: Research Article

Online Publication Date:: Sep 1974

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Summary.

Premature oviposition was induced in the coturnix quail by intrauterine injection of prostaglandins, essential fatty acids, dibutyryl cyclic AMP, and human seminal plasma. Aspirin and indomethacin inhibited the response to prostaglandin precursors but not to PGE₁. Theophylline potentiated the effect of dibutyryl cyclic AMP and low doses of PGE₁ and PGE₂. Fowl, turkey, bull, boar, and stallion seminal plasma was ineffective on oviposition and contained only small amounts of prostaglandins as determined by radioimmunoassay. It is suggested that prostaglandins may have a physiological rôle in the regulation of oviposition.

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