Interval between preovulatory surges of luteinizing hormone increases late in the reproductive period in turkey hens

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1068-1075

  Liu, H K ^a   Long, D W ^a   Bacon, Wayne L ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Luteinizing hormone; Ovulation; Ovulatory cycle; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG PRODUCTION; FEMALE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURKEY (BIRD); VARIANCE;

AVES; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO;

EID: 0036195799     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod66.4.1068     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Frequency of luteinizing hormone surges and egg production rate in turkey hens
2. Reproductive senescence in domestic fowl: Effects on egg production, sequence length and intersequence pause length
3. Carcass traits, ovarian morphology and egg laying characteristics in early versus late maturing strains of commercial egg-type hens
4. Effect of feed allowance during rearing and breeding on female broiler breeders, 2: Ovarian morphology and production
5. A model for persistency of egg production
6. A model for individual egg production in chickens
7. Direct and correlated responses to long-term selection for increased body weight and egg production in turkeys
8. Gonadotropin releasing hormone: Forms and functions in bird
9. Changes in plasma concentrations of luteinizing hormone, progesterone, and testosterone in turkey hens during the ovulatory cycle
10. Preovulatory luteinizing hormone surge interval in old and young laying turkey hens early in the egg production period
11. Concentration change patterns of luteinizing hormone and progesterone, and distribution of hierarchical follicles in normal and arrested laying turkey hens
12. Plasma LH and progesterone concentration in the turkey hen during the ovulatory cycle
13. Two avian luteinizing hormone radioimmunoassay procedures compared by measurement of changes during the ovulatory cycle of turkey and broiler hens
14. Ovulation and egg formation in the Beltsville Small White Turkey
15. Follicular growth and ovulation in hypophysectomized hens
16. Ovulability of ovarian follicles in the hypophysectomized hens
17. Circadian rhythm of the preovulatory surge of luteinizing hormone and its relationship to rhythms of body temperature and locomotor activity in turkey hens
18. The clutch patterns of hens in constant illumination
19. Age-dependent changes in oviposition pattern and egg production traits in the domestic hen
20. Effects of photostimulatory lighting and feed allocation in female broiler breeders, 2: Egg and chick production characteristics
21. The effect of aging on the ovarian follicular growth in laying hens
22. Follicle stimulating hormone increases serum oestradiol-17β concentrations, number of growing follicles and yolk deposition in aging hens (Gallus gallus domesticus) with decreased egg production
23. Reproductive development and response of White Leghorn pullets subjected to increasing daylengths at different ages
24. The effect of age on egg production in the domestic hen
25. Independent effects of hen age and egg size on incubation and poult characteristics in commercial turkeys
26. Analyses of oviposition times and intervals in a wide range of layer flocks under normal and continuous lighting regimes
27. Photostimulation changes the pattern of luteinizing hormone secretion in turkey hens
28. Secretion of luteinizing hormone during a forced molt in turkey hens
29. Effect of divergent selection for total plasma phosphorus on plasma and yolk very-low density lipoproteins and plasma concentration of selected hormones in laying Japanese quail
30. Algorithms for the study of episodic hormone secretion
31. Ovarian morphology and rates of ovarian follicular development in laying broiler breeders and commercial egg production hens
32. Follicular growth and atresia in the ovaries of hens (Gallus domesticus) with diminished egg production rates
33. The influence of aging on ovarian function
34. The effect of continuous light and continuous noise on pullets held in a sealed chamber
35. Genetic variation in the time of oviposition in the laying hen
36. Genetic and phenotypic parameters for oviposition pattern traits in three selection lines of laying hens
37. Characteristics of oviposition patterns of turkey hens and the influence of different wavelengths of light
38. Changes in plasma luteinizing hormone concentration in turkey hens after switching from short-day to long-day photoperiods
39. Relationships between broodiness expression laying persistency and concentrations of hormones during the first productive period in turkey hens (Meleagris gallopavo)
40. Age-dependent changes in the hypothalamopituitary-ovarian axis of the laying hen
41. Neuroendocrine control of reduced persistence of egg-laying in domestic hens: Evidence for the development of photorefractoriness
42. Synthesis of sex steroid by cellular components of chicken follicles
43. Steroid concentrations in isolated theca and granulosa layers of preovulatory follicles during the ovulatory cycle of the domestic hen
44. Characterization of dissimilar steroid productions by granulosa, theca interna and theca externa cells during follicular maturation in the turkey (Meleagis gallopavo)
45. Multiple steroidogenic cell populations in thecal layer of preovulatory follicles of the chicken ovary
46. Immunolocalization of steroidogenic cells in small follicles of the chicken ovary: Anatomical arrangement and local of steroidogenic cells change during follicular development
47. Differential steroid-production between theca interna and theca externa cells: A three-cell model for follicular steroidogenesis in avian species