New publication: Do ovarian steroid hormones control the resumption of embryonic growth following the period of diapause in roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)?
The second paper of our project on the “Regulation of Embryonic Diapause in the European roe deer” has been published in the journal "Reproductive Biology".
In this part of the project, we investigated whether female steroid hormones play a role in the reactivation of embryo development after embryonic diapause. We found that the plasma and uterine progesterone and oestrogen concentrations stayed constant in the period between September and December. That means that irrespective of developmental stage of the embryo, there were no differences in the concentrations of these hormones. We conclude that steroid hormones do not play a key role in the reactivation of embryo development after diapause. The article is freely available in the journal «Reproductive Biology» under the following link:
external page https://doi.org/10.1016/j.repbio.2019.04.003
Barbara Drews, Alba Rudolf Vegas, Vera Anna van der Weijden, Vladimir Milojevic, Anna Katharina Hankele, Gerhard Schuler and Susanne Ernestine Ulbrich. Do ovarian steroid hormones control the resumption of embryonic growth following the period of diapause in roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)? Reproductive Biology, 2019.