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Biology of Reproduction, Vol 11, 504-508, Copyright © 1974 by Society for the Study of Reproduction

beta-Galactosidase in Rat Ovarian Bursa Fluid at Ovulation

EARL L. PARR 1

1 Laboratories of Human Reproduction and Reproductive Biology and The Dept. of Anatomy, Harvard Medical School, 45 Shattuck Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115


beta-Galactosidase activity was assayed fluorometrically in the fluid which accumulates within the ovarian bursa of the rat at the time of ovulation. Its concentration there was found to be 7.5-fold greater than its concentration in plasma. The enzyme is a typical acid hydrolase, presumed to occur in lysosomes in cells of the ovarian follicle wall. Its accumulation in bursa fluid suggests that lysosomal enzymes may be released from follicle walls during ovulation and washed into the bursa by the exudation of fluid through the surface of follicles.

Accepted on July 17, 1974






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