Exercise training-induced changes in anterior pituitary gonadotrope of the female rat

• Published in: Journal of applied physiology (1985) Vol. 79; no. 1; p. 194
• Main Authors: Caston, A L, Farrell, P A, Deaver, D R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.07.1995
• Subjects: Animals; Cells, Cultured; Estrus; Female; Flow Cytometry; Fluorescent Antibody Technique; Gonadotropins, Pituitary - secretion; Hormones - blood; Immunohistochemistry; Luteinizing Hormone - secretion; Ovary - anatomy & histology; Physical Conditioning, Animal; Pituitary Gland, Anterior - cytology; Pituitary Gland, Anterior - physiology; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley

Chronic exercise training may alter the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis by affecting gonadotropin secretion and structural indexes of the anterior pituitary gonadotropes. Young female Harlan Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned to either a 12-wk intensive treadmill-running program (n = 16)...