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Bernard V, Lamothe S, Beau I, Guillou A, Martin A, Le Tissier P, Grattan D, Young J, Binart N. Autocrine actions of prolactin contribute to the regulation of lactotroph function in vivo. FASEB J 2018; 32:4791-4797. [PMID: 29596024 DOI: 10.1096/fj.201701111rr] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
Abstract
Prolactin (PRL), whose principal role is regulation of lactation, is mainly synthesized and secreted by lactotroph anterior pituitary cells. Its signaling is exerted via a transmembrane PRL receptor (PRLR) expressed in a wide variety of tissues, including the anterior pituitary. Dopamine, which is secreted by tuberoinfundibular hypothalamic neurons, is the major inhibitory regulator of prolactin secretion. Although PRL is well established to stimulate hypothalamic dopamine secretion, thereby exerting a negative feedback regulation on its own release, autocrine or paracrine actions of PRL on lactotroph cells have also been suggested. Within the pituitary, PRL may inhibit both lactotroph proliferation and secretion, but in vivo evaluation of these putative functions is limited. To determine whether the autocrine actions of prolactin have a significant role in the physiologic function of lactotrophs in vivo, we examined the consequences of conditional deletion of Prlr in lactotroph cells using a novel mouse line with loxP sites flanking the Prlr gene ( Prlrlox/lox) and Cre-recombinase (Cre) expressed under the control of the pituitary-specific Prl promoter. Prlrlox/lox/Prl-Cre mice have normal PRL levels and did not develop any pituitary lactotroph adenoma, even at 20 mo of age. Nevertheless, Prlrlox/lox/Prl-Cre mice displayed an increased dopaminergic inhibitory tone compared with control Prlrlox/lox mice. These results elegantly confirm an autocrine/paracrine feedback of PRL on lactotroph cells in vivo, which can be fully compensated by an intact hypothalamic feedback system.-Bernard, V., Lamothe, S., Beau, I., Guillou, A., Martin, A., Le Tissier, P., Grattan, D., Young, J., Binart, N. Autocrine actions of prolactin contribute to the regulation of lactotroph function in vivo.
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Affiliation(s)
- Valérie Bernard
- Unité INSERM 1185, Faculté de Médecine Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
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- Unité INSERM 1185, Faculté de Médecine Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
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- Unité INSERM 1185, Faculté de Médecine Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
| | - Anne Guillou
- Unité INSERM 1191, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, Montpellier, France
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- Unité INSERM 1191, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, Montpellier, France
| | - Paul Le Tissier
- Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Department of Anatomy, Centre for Neuroendocrinology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Unité INSERM 1185, Faculté de Médecine Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.,Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital de Bicêtre, Service d'Endocrinologie et des Maladies de la Reproduction, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
| | - Nadine Binart
- Unité INSERM 1185, Faculté de Médecine Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
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