title: Thyroid hormone modulation of ovarian recrudescence of air-breathing catfish Clarias gariepinus.
abstract: In the present study, thiourea-induced thyroid hormone depletion and thyroxine (T(4)) 'overdose' were used as a strategy to understand the influence of thyroid hormones on ovarian recrudescence of juvenile (3-months-old), immature (8-months-old) and adult (1-year-old) air-breathing catfish, Clarias gariepinus. Thiourea-induced thyroid hormone depletion in juvenile catfish impaired ovarian development, but no significant effect was observed in immature catfish and during late stage of ovarian recrudescence of mature catfish. T(4) treatment in females undergoing late stages of ovarian recrudescence induced rapid oocyte growth by promoting its early entry into maturational phase as evident from the presence of more number of vitellogenic and post-vitellogenic follicles, decrease in aromatse immunoreactivity and reduced estradiol-17beta levels. Hence, thyroid hormones have an important role to play during early stages of ovarian development and vitellogenesis of catfish and also indicating that thyroid has a stage dependent effect on ovary.
authors.affiliation: Department of Animal Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, P.O. Central University, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, 500 046, India.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Supriya
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Raghuveer
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Swapna
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Rasheeda
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nagahama
authors.forename: Aparna Dutta
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: K C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Majumdar
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Senthilkumaran