Zusammenfassung

The Effect of Ovarian Extracts on the Oxygen Consumption of the Uterus

“…Laqueur [1927], and Kaufmann, Muller, and Muhlbock [1932] found that ovarian substances caused an increased development rate in tadpoles. David [1931], and Aschheim and Gesenius [1933] found an increase in the oxygen consumption rate of the isolated uterus of mice which had been injected with ovarian extracts.The results which have been quoted agree that the ovary influences metabolism, but the identity of the ovarian hormone or hormones which produce metabolic changes is a matter of some doubt. Most of the investigators who have been mentioned used crude ovarian extracts or commercial ovarian preparations which contained large quantities of cestrin; but the rise in the gaseous metabolic rate of rats that Kochmann and Wagner [1926] found was ascribed to a new ovarian hormone other than cestrin, and the authors called this new hormone "oobolin."…”