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Puromycin, an inhibitor of protein synthesis, strongly reduces the incidence of retrogression of the mullerian ducts provoked by testicular graft in the female chick embryo.
The testicular hormone responsible for the retrogression of the mullerian ducts in the female chick embryo submitted to an embryonic testicular graft, causes an atrophy of the two, cortical and medullary, parts of this gonad, which is more marked at the level of the cortex.
Morphogenesis of the epididymis, which takes place in the chick, during the two months after hatching, is inhibited by the antiandrogenic drug, cyproteron acetate, which acts as strongly as castration. This fact is a good argument for our conception of sexual differentiation after which epididymis is induced by testosterone.
When a chick embryo, deprived of its hypothalamo-pituitary complex by partial decapitation, is bearing a grafted hypophysis, this gland is unable to induce a normal development of the thyroid. The volume of this gland is reduced and, consequently, the fixation of iodine is decreased from the age of 16 days. Some authors think that there are no hypothalamo-pituitary correlations in the chick embryo. On the contrary, these observations lead to admit their appearance towards the end of the incubation.
In female chick embryos grafted with embryonic testis, it is a correlation between the effects of the graft on the mullerian ducts and on the ovary. Indeed, when the graft causes retrogression of the ducts, it induces an ovarian atrophy also. These facts lead to think that these two activities are due to the same substance, the mullerian inhibiting hormone of the testis.
The absence of the hypothalamo-hypophyseal complex had neither influence on the ovarian atrophy, nor on the mullerian retrogression induced by an embryonic testicular graft in the female embryo. So, the hormone responsible of the mullerian retrogression had an inhibiting action on the embryonic ovary of the chick which is independant of the hypothalamo-hypophyseal complex.
In the normal ageing rat is observed a progressive hyperplasia of the C cells. In the rat treated by an antithyroideal drug, the hyperplasia is much more important than in normal. It already appears during the treatment and grows up after its stop. This observation means that the C cells hyperplasia, which reaches later to gamma tumors production, is not due to the TSH oversecreted under the antithyroideal drug influence.
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