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No effect of voluntary exercise on ovarian follicle in rats
1Department of Veterinary Anatomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Yamaguchi University, Japan.
Experimental Animals
|July 1, 1997
Abstract:
The present study was to clarify the relationship between voluntary exercise and follicular growth or ovulation. Rats kept for 4 weeks in a rotating drum with free access to the wheel, food and water ran 2-12 km per day. The number of ova shed after superovulation treatments and the number of non-atretic follicles were not influenced by voluntary exercise. These experiments demonstrate that spontaneous voluntary exercise does not affect either the number of ova shed or the number of non-atretic follicles in superovulating rats or control rats.