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Figure 3 | Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Figure 3

From: Cellular and molecular evidence for a role of tumor necrosis factor alpha in the ovulatory mechanism of trout

Figure 3

Effects of rtTNFα treatment in vitro on follicle contraction in brown trout preovulatory follicles. Preovulatory brown trout ovarian follicles were incubated for 16 h at 15°C in the presence or absence of the test compounds epinephrine and rtTNFα. Each bar represents the mean ± SE from three independent experiments, each performed with preovulatory follicles from a different female and assayed in triplicate. The results are expressed as percent change with respect to the unpunctured control group (UP control) which has been set at 100%. Punctured (P) trout preovulatory ovarian follicles were incubated in the absence or presence of epinephrine (10 μM) or rtTNFα (50 ng/ml). Statistically significant (p < 0.05) differences among groups are indicated by different letters.

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