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Steroid synthesis in ovarian homogenates from immature mice treated with diethylstilboestrol in neonatal life

Summary. Female mice of the NMRI strain were treated with the synthetic oestrogen diethylstilboestrol (DES) for the first 5 days after birth. Pools of ovaries were removed from groups of 6-, 12-, 21-, 28- and 56-day-old females. An homogenate of an ovarian pool was incubated for 1 h in the presence of [³H]pregnenolone. Synthesized steroids were extracted and separated in a two-dimensional thin-layer chromatography system. Homogeneity of tentative steroids was verified with recrystallization to constant specific activity. Synthesis of [³H]progesterone and [³H]testosterone was demonstrated at 6 days, [³H]androstenedione at 12 days, [³H]17-hydroxyprogesterone at 21 days, and [³H]oestradiol-17β at 28 days. Up to 28 days (21 days for progesterone), the synthetic activity was lower in homogenates of DES-exposed ovaries than in control homogenates. After 28 days, values for recovered [³H]progesterone, [³H]androstenedione and [³H]oestradiol-17β were higher in DES homogenates than in control homogenates while the reverse was true for [³H]17-hydroxyprogesterone and [³H]testosterone. The results are compatible with an early and direct DES inhibitory effect on ovarian steroidogenesis and, later in immature life, a DES-induced disruption of the normal FSH–LH stimulation of ovarian development.

Keywords: steroids; synthesis; ovary; mouse; diethylstilboestrol

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