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The corpus luteum provides steroid hormonal support essential for the establishment and maintenance of early pregnancy [ 8 9 ] . Follicles undergo cycles of antral development and atresia throughout gestation [ 10 11 12 ] .
Progesterone derived from the corpus luteum (CL) is required for the establishment and maintenance of a suitable uterine environment during early pregnancy [ 1 2 ] . Inappropriate luteal function ( i.e. luteal insufficiency) may contribute to the high incidence of spontaneous abortions that occur early in mammalian pregnancies [ 3 ] . In most species, the luteolytic cascade, starting with loss of progesterone production and followed by tissue regression (
PFD, pelvic floor disorders; p27, p27 kip1; PBS, phosphate-buffered saline; CL, corpus luteum or corpora lutea; cdk, cyclin-dependent kinase; p21, p21 Cip1/WAF1.
They are not secreted from cells, but remain trapped intracellularly [ 18 ] . In addition to various glycosylated LHR variants, western blotting also yielded a 170 kDa band representing an LHR dimer [ 19 ] . LH binds to LHR variants with different affinities, and highest affinity appears to be associated with the fully glycosylated receptor (~90 kDa) [ 19 ] . Chorionic gonadotropin (CG), which is important for corpus luteum (CL) rescue and maintenance of pregnancy, also binds to LHR, although with a 10-fold lower binding affinity compared with that of LH [ 20 ] .