Journal of Endocrinology and Reproduction

K. J. Meenakumari ¹, R. Sridaran ², A. Krishna ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, IN
2 Morehouse School of Medicine, Department of Physiology, 720 Westview Drive, S. W., Atlanta, GA 30310-1495, US

Abstract

The present study was designed to examine the changes in bradykinin in the ovary during different stages of reproductive cycle in short-nosed fruit bat, Cynopterus sphinx. The site and intensity of bradykinin immunoreactivity showed variations in relation to the ovarian cycle and pregnancy. During ovarian recrudescence the bradykinin was mainy localized in the granulosa cells of both preantral and antral follicles.

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