[Morphologic and hormonal correlates of true hermaphroditism in the rabbit]
Abstract:
A macro-microscopical and histological investigation of the urogenital system organs of a rabbit-hermophrodite has been performed with an aim to compare the content of sex steroids in the peripheral and in the gonadal blood estimated by means of radioimmunological methods. Certain anomalies have been found out in the development of external and internal sex organs, kidneys and urinary bladder. Testosterone and estradiol concentration in blood flowing from the ovotestis is decreased, as it is in the periphral blood. The rabbit urogenital system organs have been studied from the 12th day of the intrauterine development up to the 10th day of the postnatal life. The results of the investigation performed make it possible to consider that the developmental anomalies in the rabbit-hermophrodite have, evidently, appeared between the 20th--25th days of its intrauterine development as a result of certain disbalance of sex steroids.
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