Urinary oestrogen and progesterone excretion before and during pregnancy in a pied bare-face tamarin (Saguinus bicolor bicolor)
- 1 July 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Bioscientifica in Reproduction
- Vol. 80 (2), 635-640
- https://doi.org/10.1530/jrf.0.0800635
Abstract
Oestrone, oestradiol-17.beta. and progesterone were measured by radioimmunoassay in daily urine samples after pairing and during subsequent pregnancy in a pied bare-face tamarin. On the basis of excretion profiles an ovarian cycle length of about 3 weeks and a gestation length of about 160 days are suggested. Oestrone was the predominant urinary oestrogen excreted by the non-pregnant and pregnant pied bare-face tamarin, the oestrone/oestradiol ratio being greater than 100:1. The results suggest that steroid monitoring can provide useful information about reproductive physiology in this species of tamarin.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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