DIFFERENCE OF THE INVIVO RESPONSIVENESS TO THYROTROPIN STIMULATION BETWEEN THE NEOTENIC AND METAMORPHOSED AXOLOTL, AMBYSTOMA-MEXICANUM - FAILURE OF PROLACTIN TO BLOCK THE THYROTROPIN-INDUCED THYROXINE RELEASE
DIFFERENCE OF THE INVIVO RESPONSIVENESS TO THYROTROPIN STIMULATION BETWEEN THE NEOTENIC AND METAMORPHOSED AXOLOTL, AMBYSTOMA-MEXICANUM - FAILURE OF PROLACTIN TO BLOCK THE THYROTROPIN-INDUCED THYROXINE RELEASE
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DOI:
10.1016/0016-6480(84)90047-9
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
KUHN, ER
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作者:
DARRAS, VM;KUHN, ER
Basal and TSH-induced plasma concentrations of T4 [thyroxine] have been measured by radioimmunoassay in the neotenic and metamorphosed male axololt A. mexicanum both before and after an ovine prolactin pretreatment. All injections are made into the vena abdominalis. Basal levels of T4 are low in neotenes (85 .+-. 19 pg/ml) and somewhat higher in metamorphosed Ambystoma (171 .+-. 39 pg/ml), but are increased during metamorphosis (1094 .+-. 138 pg/ml). Following injection of 5 mU bovine TSH circulating levels of T4 are raised about 4 times in neotenes, but more than 50 times in metamorphosed animals. Three i.v. injections, each of 640 mU prolactin and given, respectively, 24 and 13 h before and simultaneously with 5 mU TSH, do not inhibit the TSH-induced release in both experimental groups. In the metamorphosed Ambystoma again a > 50-fold T4 increase is present, whereas in neotenes a 10-fold TSH-induced T4 release is seen, which is more pronounced than before the prolactin treatment. In A. mexicanum ovine prolactin does not block a TSH-induced T4 release. Any antagonistic action with thyroid hormones is not mediated through the thyroid gland.