Singular epidural follicle-stimulating hormone administration on follicular growth in camels

P. Olof Olsson, Kenichiro Sakaguchi, Alex H. Tinson, Kuldip Singh Kuhad, Woo Suk Hwang
Super-stimulation enables to obtain multiple oocytes and/or embryos but requires laborious and stressful multiple hormonal injections. To simplify the super-stimulation process, we evaluated the effect of a single epidural follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) administration in camels. After the epidural treatment, 71% of camels showed multiple ovulatory follicles, the number of ovulatory follicles were lower after the epidural treatment (mean ± standard deviation, 6.0 ± 6.7) than the conventional
more » ... treatment (22.4 ± 13.9), which consisted of a single injection of equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and daily FSH injections for 8 days, and was similar to eCG alone (11.4 ± 13.7). In conclusion, singular epidural FSH administration was not comparable with the conventional protocol but still successfully induced super-stimulation in camels.
doi:10.14943/jjvr.70.1.33 fatcat:7ix6m3c6onczxlx4wij4e6azxq