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The importance of the pituitary gonadotropins in the regulation of ovarian steroidogenesis has long been recognized (1,2). Recently, we have reported an inhibitory action of estradiol-17β on luteinizing hormone (LH)-induced ovarian androgen levels in vivo,and suggested that this may be the result of an intra-ovarian feedback regulation by estrogen of its own production (3). The present communication extends this proposal to porcine thecal androgen production in vitro.
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Leung, P.C.K., Tsang, B.K., Armstrong, D.T. (1979). Estrogen Inhibits Porcine Thecal Androgen Production in vitro . In: Channing, C.P., Marsh, J.M., Sadler, W.A. (eds) Ovarian Follicular and Corpus Luteum Function. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 112. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3474-3_29
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