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Biology of Reproduction, Vol 29, 1128-1134, Copyright © 1983 by Society for the Study of Reproduction

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Corpora lutea of pregnancy and elevated serum progesterone during pregnancy and postpartum anestrus in woodchucks (Marmota monax)

P Concannon, B Baldwin, J Lawless, W Hornbuckle and B Tennant

Serum samples (n = 62) were collected from wild-caught woodchucks (n = 45) that were nonpregnant (n = 3), pregnant (n = 25) or postpartum (n = 34) when bled at the time of capture and/or necropsy, or following maintenance and observation for variable periods of time. Progesterone concentrations were determined by radioimmunoassay and related to the actual or estimated time from parturition which occurs at 31 days postcoitum in this species. Mean serum progesterone levels during the initial, middle and last third of pregnancy were 6.5 +/- 1.7, 22.5 +/- 3.7 and 16.8 +/- 3.2 ng/ml, respectively. Postpartum progesterone levels were elevated above basal values (less than or equal to 0.3 ng/ml) in both lactating and nonlactating animals for 2-3 months postpartum and were not consistently basal until more than 90 days postpartum. Mean progesterone levels at less than 30, 30-60, 61-90, and greater than 90 days postpartum were 25.1 +/- 6.2, 60.6 +/- 18.5, 22.8 +/- 8.7 and 0.4 +/- 0.2 ng/ml, respectively, and those at 30-60 days postpartum were greater than those at midpregnancy (P less than 0.05). Mean corpus luteum diameters were also greater (P less than 0.05) postpartum (2.9 +/- 0.3 mm) than during pregnancy (1.5 +/- 0.3 mm). The correlation between placental scars and ipsilateral corpora lutea indicated that the corpora lutea observed postpartum were the corpora lutea of the recent pregnancy. The termination of each uterine horn in a separate external cervical os precluded the occurrence of transcornual migration.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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