Effect of Pinealectomy on Thyroid Hormone (T4 and T3) Levels in Plasma During Annual Reproductive Cycle in the Freshwater Catfish, Clarias batrachus

Thyroxine and triiodothyronine (T3) were measured by radioimmunoassay in serum and thyroid gland of the freshwater teleost Clarias batrachus. Pinealectomy increased the glandular levels of the thyroid hormones but decreased the plasma levels of T4 concomitantly with the increase of T3 levels. Most of the effects of pinealectomy on thyroid hormones were restricted to the gonadal development periods. Pinealectomy has shown no significant impact on thyroid hormones during the other periods of the reproductive cycle. Thus, it appears that the pineal gland is inhibitory to thyroid hormones during gonadal development and maturation.

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