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BIOLOGY
OF
REPRODUCTION
33,
844-85
Radioimmunoassay
of Serum
Luteinizing ALAN
3 (1985)
Follicle-stimulating
Hormone
SCHNEYER,’
ALBERT
Rosenstiel
School
Hormone
in the Bottlenosed
of
CASTRO,2
Marine
Miami,
of
and
DANIEL
Atmospheric
and
University
and
Dolphin ODELL
Science
Miami
Florida
33149
ABSTRACT Commercially
(FSH)
available
radioimmunoassay
(RIA)
kits
for
human
follicle-stimulating
hormone
and
luteinizing hormone (LH) were adapted for quantitation of these hormones in serum from bottlenosed dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Serum samples from over 160 wild and 70 captive animals were assayed in order to determine basal concentrations of FSH and LH in these animals, as well as to detect possible differences between various groups. Mean FSH and LH levels for all animals were FSH and LU
0.22 ± 0.08 levels than
and 0.37 ± 0.18 captive ones, the
ng/ml, respectively. Although wild animals had higher differences were not statistically significant (P
