Blood Sampling and Hormone Measurement for Determining the Stage in the Ovarian Cycle in MarmosetsShun Takahashi 1, Toshiaki Watanabe 1
1National Center for Child Health and Development
This protocol describes blood and urine sampling for measuring progesterone/estradiol and chorionic gonadotropin levels to determine the ovarian cycle stage. The hormone levels are used to predict and determine the timing of ovulation and hormones are injected to regulate the ovarian cycle and oocyte growth.
