A Comparison of the Effects of Altered Thyroid and Parathyroid Function on Reproduction in the Rat

C. E. Hendrich; S. P. Porterfield; J. Henderson; V. A. Galton

doi:10.1055/s-0028-1093645

Hormone and Metabolic Research, Inhaltsverzeichnis

Horm Metab Res 1976; 8(3): 220-226
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1093645

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A Comparison of the Effects of Altered Thyroid and Parathyroid Function on Reproduction in the Rat

C. E. Hendrich , S. P. Porterfield , J. Henderson , V. A. Galton

Department of Physiology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Department of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

Abstract

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Abstract

Mild maternal hypothyroidism produced by surgical thyroidectomy resulted in significantly reduced food intake along with retarded reproductive performance in rats. Hyperthyroidism increased food consumption above the control level along with an increase in fetal resorptions which was the only parameter of reproductive performance altered by the twenty-second day of gestation.

In animals which underwent successive pregnancies, reproductive performance suffered a further decline in the second gestation due to increasing duration of the hypothyroidism. Food restriction alone failed to duplicate these adverse effects on fetal development.

Serum gonadotropins (LH and FSH) were not significantly altered by mild maternal hypothyroidism or hypoparathyroidism. The hematocrit and total blood volume of hypothyroid but not hypoparathyroid rats was significantly reduced from normal. Maternal hypoparathyroidism alone did not affect fetal development grossly.

Key words

Hypothyroid - Hyperthyroid - Parathyroid - Reproduction - Food Consumption - Fetal

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