ADAPTATION OF THE SPIRAL ARTERY IN THE RABBIT OVARY TO CHANGES IN ORGANSIZE AFTER STIMULATION BY GONADOTROPHINS; EFFECT OF OVULATION AND LUTEINIZATION

UNTIL RECENTLY, scant attention has been paid to the arrangement of the arteries within the ovary. Older works, such as those of Barkow (1866) and Clark (1900) depict them in the human as a mass of tortuous vessels derived from branches of the ovarian artery as this vessel enters the hilus of the ovary. Later work, based upon gross dissections in the rat, guinea pig, sow, and rabbit (Anders, 1927) do not alter this conception. This work shows schematically the arteries in the hilus of the ovary as forming a network derived from several arteries in the mesovarium. A different description is given by Belou (1934). This investigator examined by stereoscopic X-ray the human female genital tract in which the arteries had been injected with an opaque medium.