Melatonin and exposure to constant light/darkness affects ovarian follicular kinetics and estrous cycle in Indian desert gerbil Meriones hurrianae
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- DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1997.6976
Melatonin and exposure to constant light/darkness affects ovarian follicular kinetics and estrous cycle in Indian desert gerbil Meriones hurrianae
Abstract
Melatonin mediates photoperiodic influence on reproduction and constant light and darkness affect pineal biosynthesis of melatonin. The present study was undertaken to assess the effects of melatonin and drastic photoperiodic changes on reproduction in a tropical desert species with a fossorial lifestyle. Ovarian follicular kinetics and estrous cycle were studied in the Indian desert gerbil Meriones hurrianae, after treatment with melatonin and exposure to constant light (LL) and darkness (DD) regimes. Melatonin treatment increased (P < 0.001) ovarian weights without changing the uterine weights. While exposure to LL decreased (P < 0.001) both ovarian and uterine weights, exposure to DD had no effect on these weights. Follicular kinetics of growing and regressing follicles revealed that ovaries of melatonin-treated and DD-exposed animals had significantly more growing follicles. Melatonin treatment increased all types of growing follicles, especially antral and Graafian follicles. Exposure to DD increased all types of growing follicles, with the medium sized antral and Graafian follicles being significant (P < 0.01). In contrast to stimulation of follicular growth by melatonin and DD, LL caused regression of all stages of follicular growth and also reduced the number of small preantral follicles. Melatonin treatment increased (P < 0.001) the length of estrous cycle (5.08 to 7.29 days). Gerbils treated with melatonin, exposed to LL and DD, had a longer (P < 0.001) metestrus. Animals held in LL, had the least number (P < 0.001) of estrous smears (1 in 30 days). The results suggest that melatonin is involved in growth of ovarian follicles in the Indian desert gerbil.
Copyright 1997 Academic Press.
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