Ovarian steroids differentially augment pituitary FSH release in deafferented rats
Ovarian steroids differentially augment pituitary FSH release in deafferented rats
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卵巢类固醇不同程度地增加入耳聋大鼠的垂体 FSH 释放
DOI:
10.1016/0006-8993(76)90979-3
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发表时间:
1976
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
S. Kalra
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作者:
S. Kalra
A considerable body of evidence suggests that different neuroanatomic sites may regulate the pituitary LH and FSH release4, 8, 13. Martini and coworkers observed that electrolytic lesions in the paraventricular region (dorsal anterior hypothalamus) decreased bioassayable FSH releasing activity in the medial basal hypothalamus (MBH). In the pentobarbital-blocked proestrus rats, Kalra et al. 8 found that electrochemical stimulations of the medial septal and the rostral medial preoptic area (MPOA) were highly effective in releasing pituitary LH whereas similar stimulations in the caudal portion of the MPOA-anterior hypothalamus (AHA) evoked simultaneously the release of FSH and LH. It was inferred that a medial septal, preoptico-tuberal and an AHA-tuberal pathway may be involved in the release of LH and FSH, respectively. Considerable supportive evidence for this hypothesis has emerged from studies with lesions 2 and stimulation experiments3, L Transection of the anatomical links between the AHA and the MBH blocked the compensatory hypertrophy following ovariectomy 12 and the post-ovariectomy rise of FSH in the peripheral blood 7. In the present study we report that separation of the AHA-MBH neural complex from the POA by surgical means results in the dissociation of pituitary FSH and LH release induced by treatment with ovarian steroids. The experiments were conducted in female Sprague-Dawley rats (Charles River, CD, body weight 180-220 g) maintained under a 14 h light-10 h dark cycle. The AHA was carefully separated from the POA by a Hala~ z knife (1.8 mm radius and height) as described elsewhereT, 9, lo. Histological examination of the brains of these rats showed that the semicircular cut passed through the rostralmost regions of the AHA and extended dorsally to the paraventricular nucleus. In sham control rats the knife was lowered to the base of the skull but no cut was made, Only those rats which showed persistent vaginal cornification following anterior hypothalamic deafferentation (AHD) were used in two experiments as follows. In experiment 1 (Fig. 1), AHD rats were injected with either progesterone (P)(4 mg/rat in 0.1 ml oil) or oil at 10.00 h (ref. 6). A blood sample from the jugular vein of each rat was drawn under ether anesthesia prior to the P (9 rats) or oil (5 rats) injections and at 15.45 and 16.45 h. Gonadotropins in the plasma obtained from these samples were measured by RIA