title: Nutritional stress-induced implantation failure in laboratory mice: inhibition by continuous illumination.
abstract: The implantation failure in newly inseminated mice induced by food deprivation for 48 hr, beginning at 0900 hrs on day 4 post coitum, was prevented by simultaneous exposure to light continuously for 48 or 36 hr. Food-deprived females that were exposed to continuous light for 36 hr showed a significant increase in fetal resorption as compared with food-deprived females exposed to continuous light for 48 hr. Since failure of hypophysial prolactin release appears to be the primary endocrine cause of the inanition-induced implantation failure, the results suggest that exposure to continuous light protects implantation in food-deprived females by stimulating luteotrophic activity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Archunan
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Dominic
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D010064:Embryo Implantation / Q000528:radiation effects*; D005260:Female; D005508:Food Deprivation / Q000502:physiology*; D008027:Light; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice