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Oride A, Kanasaki H, Mutiara S, Purwana IN, Miyazaki K. Activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) and induction of mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphatase 1 (MKP-1) by perifused thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) stimulation in rat pituitary GH3 cells. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2008; 296:78-86. [PMID: 18824214 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2008.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2008] [Revised: 08/26/2008] [Accepted: 09/03/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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We investigated the pattern of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) phosphorylation and the induction of mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphatase 1 (MKP-1) by thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) under various stimulation conditions in pituitary GH3 cells. In static culture, ERK activation by continuous TRH was maximal at 10 min and persisted for up to 60 min, with a return to the basal level by 2h. Stimulation with continuous TRH in perifused cells resulted in a similar level of ERK phosphorylation. MKP-1 was expressed 60 min following either static or perifused, continuous TRH stimulation. When cells were stimulated with pulsatile TRH every 30 min, ERK activation was maximal at 10 min and returned to its baseline level by 30 min. ERK was phosphorylated again with each subsequent pulse. Pulsatile TRH did not induce MKP-1. Prolactin promoter activity following continuous, static TRH stimulation was higher than that following perifused TRH stimulation. TRH at a frequency of one pulse every 30 min increased prolactin promoter activity similar to that of perifused, continuous TRH stimulation. Additionally, changes in pulse frequency resulted in alterations in the level of prolactin promoter. Following static stimulation, a 10 min exposure to TRH was sufficient to obtain full activation of the prolactin promoter. Additionally, a 5-10 min exposure of TRH was sufficient to maintain ERK activation. A single 5-min pulse of TRH stimulation resulted in low activation of the prolactin promoter. ERK activation was necessary for prolactin gene transcription; however, prolactin gene transcription is not entirely determined by the strength or duration of TRH-induced ERK activation.
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- Aki Oride
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shimane University, School of Medicine, Izumo 693-8501, Shimane Prefecture, Japan.
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Strange R, Westerlind KC, Ziemiecki A, Andres AC. Proliferation and apoptosis in mammary epithelium during the rat oestrous cycle. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2007; 190:137-49. [PMID: 17433024 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2007.01704.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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AIM During each oestrous cycle, the mammary gland is subject to changes in ovarian hormone levels. It responds with limited proliferation, differentiation and regression. To understand the processes resulting in these changes, particularly the regulation of cell death, we examined protein levels in mammary epithelium during the oestrous cycle of the Sprague-Dawley rat. METHODS Studies of serum hormone levels, vaginal smears, uterine weight and morphology, mammary gland morphology, proliferation and apoptotic indices, and protein levels during the stages of the Sprague-Dawley rat oestrous cycle were used to examine the response of mammary epithelium to the oestrous cycle. RESULTS Proliferation of mammary epithelium was greater in diestrus and proestrus, while apoptosis was increased in metestrus and diestrus. Growth factor-, hormone- and anchorage-mediated cell survival signalling, indicated by activation of Stat5A, FAK and Akt 1 and expression of anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family members, was greater in proestrus and reduced in metestrus. In contrast, the levels of pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 family members and proteins associated with apoptosis in mammary epithelium (TGFbeta3, pStat3) were increased during metestrus and diestrus. CONCLUSION Decreases in growth factor, hormone and cell attachment survival signals corresponded with increased apoptosis during the second half of the oestrous cycle. The protein levels detected during oestrus suggest parallels to apoptosis in mammary involution.
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- R Strange
- Division of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80214, USA.
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Szawka RE, Helena CVV, Rodovalho GV, Monteiro PM, Franci CR, Anselmo-Franci JA. Locus coeruleus norepinephrine regulates the surge of prolactin during oestrus. J Neuroendocrinol 2005; 17:639-48. [PMID: 16159376 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2005.01351.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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A secondary surge of prolactin has been recently characterised on the afternoon of oestrus. Because the noradrenergic nucleus locus coeruleus participates in the genesis of the pro-oestrous and steroid-induced surges of prolactin, the aim of the present study was to investigate the importance of locus coeruleus norepinephrine in the generation of the prolactin surge of oestrus. For this purpose, we initially re-evaluated the profile of prolactin secretion during the oestrous cycle to verify whether this surge of prolactin was physiological and specific to the day of oestrus. Thereafter, the following were evaluated: (i) the effect of locus coeruleus lesion on the secondary surge of prolactin and on norepinephrine concentration in the medial preoptic area (MPOA), medial basal hypothalamus (MBH) and paraventricular nucleus (PVN) during the day of oestrus and (ii) locus coeruleus neurones activity during the same day by Fos immunoreactivity. Locus coeruleus lesion completely blocked the prolactin surge of oestrus in all rats studied and also significantly reduced norepinephrine concentration in the MPOA, MBH and PVN during the day of oestrus. The number of double-labelled tyrosine hydroxylase/Fos immunoreactive neurones in locus coeruleus was significantly higher at 14.00 h of oestrus, suggesting an increase in its activity preceding the prolactin surge that generally occurs at 15.00 h. Therefore, the increase in locus coeruleus activity on the afternoon of oestrus supports the data obtained with bilateral lesion of this nucleus, suggesting a stimulatory role of locus coeruleus norepinephrine in the genesis of the secondary surge of prolactin.
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- R E Szawka
- Departamento de Fisiologia, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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Szawka RE, Anselmo-Franci JA. A secondary surge of prolactin on the estrus afternoon. Life Sci 2004; 75:911-22. [PMID: 15193951 DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2004.01.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2003] [Accepted: 01/07/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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It has been described that throughout the estrous cycle of the rat, plasma prolactin (PRL) is basal except on proestrus afternoon when a preovulatory surge occurs. However, there have been controversies about PRL levels on the estrus day. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the existence of a secondary surge of PRL on estrus afternoon and correlate it with plasma estradiol levels. The jugular vein of cycling rats was cannulated at 14:00 h on proestrus and a blood sample was withdrawn at 17:00 h for plasma LH measurement and determination of the preovulatory LH surge occurrence. In order to exclude the regular cycling rats that do not present the gonadotropins preovulatory surge and do not ovulate, only rats showing the LH surge on proestrus were considered in this study. Blood samples were collected hourly during estrus from midnight to 9:00 h (group 1) and from 10:00 to 18:00 h (group 2). In group 1, PRL showed a descending profile from midnight to 9:00 h, whereas the estradiol concentrations were constant. In group 2, a secondary surge of PRL was observed in 20 of 25 (80%) rats and plasma estradiol remained constant, but was higher in animals with the PRL surge. Thus the present data suggest the occurrence of a secondary surge of PRL in the afternoon of estrus that seems to be related to plasma estradiol levels of estrus day, which might exert only a permissive role in this surge generation.
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- Raphael Escorsim Szawka
- Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Fisiologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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- M Lampl
- Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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Lamas M, Sassone-Corsi P. The dynamics of the transcriptional response to cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate: recurrent inducibility and refractory phase. Mol Endocrinol 1997; 11:1415-24. [PMID: 9280057 DOI: 10.1210/mend.11.10.9988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Activation of the cAMP signal transduction pathway results in the transcriptional induction of many genes. Several of them are induced with kinetics characteristic of the early response. One of these, the cAMP response element modulator (CREM) gene, is cAMP-inducible by virtue of an intronic promoter that directs the synthesis of the dominant negative inducible cAMP early repressor (ICER). ICER is involved in the down-regulation of its own promoter via an autoregulatory loop. Thus, while phosphorylation of cAMP response element binding protein (CREB) by the cAMP-dependent protein kinase A is the prerequisite for induction, it has been proposed that the following attenuation involves both CREB dephosphorylation and repression by the inducible repressor ICER. Here we show that ectopic expression of sense or antisense ICER in corticotroph AtT20 cells dramatically modifies the normal CREM inducibility profile. We have investigated the kinetics of CREM inducibility by recurrent stimulation of the cAMP-signaling pathway. We define the presence of a refractory phase that follows the first induction cycle. Accumulation of cAMP, protein kinase A activity, CREB/CREM phosphorylation, and ICER levels contribute to the refractory period. Strikingly, the length of the refractory period is determined by the length of the stimulation by cAMP responsible for the first cycle of induction.
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- M Lamas
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, INSERM, Strasbourg, France
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Maeda T, Ikegami H, Sakata M, Yamaguchi M, Wada K, Koike K, Adachi K, Kurachi H, Hirota K, Miyake A. Intraventricular administration of estradiol modulates rat prolactin secretion and synthesis. J Endocrinol Invest 1996; 19:586-92. [PMID: 8957741 DOI: 10.1007/bf03349022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The effect of estradiol (E2) on rat tuberoinfundibular dopaminergic (TIDA) neurons was examined in vivo, employing chronic intraventricular (i.c.v.) infusion technique using an osmotic mini-pump. The activity of TIDA neurons was assessed by the release and synthesis of prolactin (PRL) in the rat pituitary gland and by the changes in the 3, 4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) and dopamine (DA) levels and in the DOPAC/DA ratio in the rat hypothalamus. We also examined the [3H] E2 binding in the rat hypothalamus. Ovariectomized female Wistar rats with E2 replacement were treated with daily i.c.v. infusion of 1 microM of E2 or saline vehicle for 1, 3, and 7 days using the Alzet osmotic mini-pump and brain infusion kit. At 1 day of i.c.v. infusion of E2, the serum PRL level was significantly decreased compared with that in the vehicle group. Northern blot analysis of the total RNA isolated from the pituitary glands demonstrated a decrease in the PRL gene transcript level in the E2 group. At 3 days of E2 treatment, however, the serum PRL level was significantly increased compared with that of the vehicle-injected group and Northern blot analysis also demonstrated that the PRL gene transcript level was increased in the E2 group. At 7 days of E2 administration, there were no significant differences between the E2 and vehicle groups in either serum PRL or PRL gene transcript levels. There was a significant increase in the DOPAC/DA ratio after 1 day in the E2 group. However, no significant effects of E2 on this ratio were observed at 3 and 7 days of treatment. The DOPAC concentration in the E2 group was significantly increased at day 1 and significantly decreased at day 3, compared with that of the respective time in vehicle group. At day 7 there was no significant change in DOPAC concentration in either groups. The DA concentrations in the hypothalamus was not changed on any day in either group. Specific [3H] E2 binding was observed in the rat hypothalamus. These data suggest that E2 may have a biphasic effect on the accumulation of PRL gene transcripts and on the PRL secretion in the rat pituitary by first stimulating and then inhibiting the TIDA neuronal activity.
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- T Maeda
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Osaka University Medical School, Japan
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Incubation behavior in the turkey hen is associated with a large increase in prolactin secretion. Previous research using hourly sampling of incubating hens has shown that prolactin levels fluctuate widely throughout a 24-hr period, suggestive of pulsatile secretion. This study compared the prolactin secretory patterns of laying and incubating turkeys to determine if prolactin is secreted episodically and if the high prolactin levels characteristic of the incubating hen may result, at least in part, from a change in the amplitude or frequency of secretory pulses. Blood samples were collected from cannulated, unrestrained laying and incubating hens at 10-min intervals for up to 24 hr. Data were analyzed with the PULSAR program to determine baseline prolactin levels and to establish the magnitude, frequency, and duration of episodic secretory peaks. The results revealed tha prolactin is secreted in a pulsatile pattern in both laying and incubating turkey hens. Incubating hens had ninefold higher mean and baseline plasma prolactin levels than laying hens. The prolactin pulses were of approximately 12-fold greater amplitude in incubating hens than in laying hens, but the duration and frequency of pulses were the same in both groups. Therefore, the high prolactin levels required for incubation do not appear to result from an increase in the frequency of lactotroph stimulation, but rather from an increase in the prolactin secretion rate.
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- J A Proudman
- Germplasm and Gamete Physiology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland 20705, USA
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Wetsel WC, Valença MM, Merchenthaler I, Liposits Z, López FJ, Weiner RI, Mellon PL, Negro-Vilar A. Intrinsic pulsatile secretory activity of immortalized luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone-secreting neurons. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1992; 89:4149-53. [PMID: 1570341 PMCID: PMC525650 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.89.9.4149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 208] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Mammalian reproduction is dependent upon intermittent delivery of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) to the anterior pituitary. This mode of secretion is required to sensitize maximally the gonadotrophs to LHRH stimulation and to regulate gonadotropin gene expression. While LHRH secretion is pulsatile in nature, the origin of the pulse generator is unknown. In this report, we show that this oscillator could be located within the LHRH neuronal network. When immortalized LHRH neurons are placed into a perifusion system, LHRH is secreted into the medium in a pulsatile fashion under basal conditions. LHRH secretion and the number of LHRH pulses are reduced when calcium is removed from the medium. Perifusion also influences pro-LHRH processing, since the molar ratio of its processed products varies dramatically when the cells are transferred from a static system. Several different cellular mechanisms may underlie these changes in secretion and processing. Lucifer yellow experiments reveal that some cells are dye-coupled. Hence, these cells could be electrically coupled through gap junctions such that secretion from individual cells could be coordinated. Secretion could also be synchronized through the observed synapse-like contacts. These contacts could perform a negative-feedback role to regulate not only the amount of LHRH released but also the molecular forms secreted. The organization of LHRH neurons into interconnected clusters could serve to coordinate LHRH secretion from individual cells and, thereby, orchestrate functions in vivo as diverse as the onset of puberty, the timing of ovulation, and the duration of lactational infertility.
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- W C Wetsel
- Reproductive Neuroendocrinology Section, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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López FJ, Merchenthaler I, Ching M, Wisniewski MG, Negro-Vilar A. Galanin: a hypothalamic-hypophysiotropic hormone modulating reproductive functions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991; 88:4508-12. [PMID: 1709744 PMCID: PMC51690 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.10.4508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Galanin (GAL) is widely distributed in the peripheral and the central nervous systems. In the brain, the highest GAL concentrations are observed within the hypothalamus and, particularly, in nerve terminals of the median eminence. This location, as well as GAL actions on prolactin, growth hormone, luteinizing hormone (LH), and LH-releasing hormone (LHRH) secretion, suggest the possibility that GAL may act as a putative hypothalamic-hypophysiotropic hormone. To establish this, GAL and LHRH levels were measured in hypophyseal portal plasma samples using specific radioimmunoassays. Rat galanin (rGAL) concentrations in portal blood were approximately 7-fold higher than those observed in peripheral plasma in male and female (estrus, diestrus) rats, indicating an active secretory process of rGAL into the portal vasculature. Frequent (10 min) sampling revealed that rGAL and LHRH were secreted into the portal circulation in a pulsatile manner with a pulse frequency of one pulse per hour. Interestingly, both hormone series depicted a high degree of coincident episodes. In fact, the probability of random coincidence, calculated by the algorithm HYPERGEO, was less than 0.01. Moreover, the retrograde tracer Fluoro-Gold, when given systemically, was taken up by GAL neurons in the hypothalamus, including a subset of neurons expressing rGAL and LHRH, strengthening the notion of the existence of a GAL neuronal system connected to the hypophyseal portal circulation. These observations reinforce the concept that GAL regulates pituitary hormone secretion. To analyze this in further detail, the effects of rGAL on LH secretion were evaluated under basal and stimulated conditions. rGAL induced a small but dose-dependent increase in LH secretion from cultured, dispersed pituitary cells. Interestingly, rGAL enhanced the ability of LHRH to stimulate LH release. The tight link between GAL and LHRH neuronal systems is strengthened by the observation that during the estrous cycle of the rat, rGAL and LHRH contents in the median eminence show an identical profile (r = 1.00). These data indicate that GAL should be considered as a hypothalamic-hypophysiotropic hormone and as an important neuromodulator of LHRH secretion and action. The colocalization and cosecretion of GAL and LHRH and the cooperative action at the level of the anterior pituitary afford important evidence for the functional significance of coexistence of neurotransmitters in neurons of the central nervous system.
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- F J López
- Reproductive Neuroendocrinology, Section, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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Plasma concentrations of prolactin and corticosterone were determined in hourly samples collected over a 25-hr period from unrestrained turkey hens exhibiting incubation (broody) behavior. Hens were maintained in cages on a 14 hr light: 10 hr dark photoperiod. Mean plasma prolactin concentration increased significantly late in the dark period to reach maximum daily levels of 496 ng/ml at the start of the photophase. However, a well-defined daily rhythm in prolactin secretion was not evident. Plasma corticosterone concentration showed a significant daily rhythm characterized by a major secretory peak (7.14 ng/ml) in the middle of the light period and a smaller, less well-defined peak (4.11 ng/ml) during the dark period. Both prolactin and corticosterone secretion ranged widely throughout the day in individual hens in a manner suggestive of pulsatile hormone secretion. This study demonstrates that the extremely high prolactin concentrations characteristic of the incubating turkey hen reflect large, dynamic changes in plasma prolactin concentrations occurring throughout the photoperiod, rather than a constantly high level of prolactin secretion.
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- J A Proudman
- Avian Physiology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Beltsville, Maryland 20705
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Zhang J, Chen C, Kukstas LA, Vincent JD, Israel JM. Functional Lactotroph Heterogeneity in Lactating Rats and in vitro Modification by 17Beta-Estradiol. J Neuroendocrinol 1990; 2:815-23. [PMID: 19215424 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.1990.tb00646.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Abstract Lactotrophs from lactating rats were separated by unit gravity sedimentation on a continuous density gradient of bovine serum albumin and were identified in two populations located in the light fractions (fractions 3-5) and in the heavy fractions (fractions 7-9) of the gradient. After 7 days in vitro, the effects on prolactin release of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) and dopamine before and after pretreatment with 17beta-estradiol were studied by a continuous perifusion system and reverse hemolytic plaque assay. Light fraction lactotrophs spontaneously released large quantities of prolactin (22 ng/ml/2 min/10(6) cells) and this basal release was markedly elevated (51 ng/ml/2 min/10(6) cells) by pretreatment with 17beta-estradiol (10(-8) M, 48 h), while the amount of intracellular prolactin remained stable. Mean hemolytic plaque area was increased in the same manner by 17beta-estradiol pretreatment but the number of cells and the percentage of plaque-forming cells were not changed. Perifusion of dopamine-containing medium (10(-7) M) almost completely blocked basal prolactin release from light fraction cells and this inhibition was markedly reduced by 17beta-estradiol pretreatment. TRH-containing medium (10(-7) M) weakly stimulated basal prolactin release (about 190% from basal) and this response was significantly enhanced (to about 300% of basal release) by 17beta-estradiol pretreatment. Both dopaminergic inhibition and TRH-stimulatory effects were dose-dependent and their half maximal effect values were not changed by 17beta-estradiol pretreatment. Secretion of prolactin evaluated at the single cell level by the reverse hemolytic plaque assay corroborated the results obtained from perifusion experiments. Lactotrophs from heavy fractions released small amounts of prolactin (12 ng/ml/2 min/10(6) cells) and neither this basal release nor the amount of intracellular prolactin were markedly modified by 17beta-estradiol pretreatment. As opposed to the light fraction cells, lactotrophs found in heavy fractions were very sensitive to TRH (10(-7) M) stimulation with maximal stimulation reaching ten times basal release, but were less sensitive to dopamine (10(-7) M), with an inhibition of only 40% basal prolactin liberation. Pretreatment of heavy fraction lactotrophs with 17beta-estradiol induced similar effects to those observed after pretreatment of light fraction cells: the stimulation by TRH was increased (from 11 times to 16 times) whereas the inhibition by dopamine was diminished (from 35% to 60%), but cell number and the percentage of prolactin-secreting cells remained unchanged. From the above results, we suggest that: 1) lactotrophs in the lactating rat pituitary can be divided into two major subpopulations with regard to cellular size and density, prolactin production and responsiveness to TRH and dopamine; 2) 17beta-estradiol pretreatment increases basal prolactin release from light fraction cells but does not affect basal prolactin release from heavy fraction cells in this way; 3) pretreatment with 17beta-estradiol enhances TRH stimulation and reduces dopaminergic inhibition of prolactin release from lactotrophs.
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- J Zhang
- INSERM U 176, 1 Rue Camille-Saini-Saëns, Université de Bordeaux II, 33077 Bordeaux, France
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Kukstas LA, Verrier D, Zhang J, Chen C, Israel JM, Vincent JD. Evidence for a relationship between lactotroph heterogeneity and physiological context. Neurosci Lett 1990; 120:84-6. [PMID: 2127305 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(90)90173-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Two lactotroph subpopulations differing in their functional properties have previously been isolated from lactating female rats. It was found that adult female rats at proestrus similarly yield two subpopulations of lactotrophs, whereas those from adult female rats at metestrus show different properties and in males only one functional population is found. As the period of lactation and proestrus are characterised by high circulating estrogen levels, estrogen is considered to modify lactotroph properties in the female, and as the functional differences concern the lactotroph responsiveness to TRH, it is supposed that lactotroph heterogeneity provides a means for particular secretory patterns during lactation and at proestrus.
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Coupling of a cloned rat dopamine-D2 receptor to inhibition of adenylyl cyclase and prolactin secretion. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)39945-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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