CHANGES IN PITUITARY OXYTOCIN AND VASOPRESSIN DURING THE ESTROUS-CYCLE AND AFTER OVARIAN HORMONES - EVIDENCE FOR MEDIATION BY NOREPINEPHRINE
CHANGES IN PITUITARY OXYTOCIN AND VASOPRESSIN DURING THE ESTROUS-CYCLE AND AFTER OVARIAN HORMONES - EVIDENCE FOR MEDIATION BY NOREPINEPHRINE
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DOI:
10.1016/0024-3205(78)90373-9
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
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影响因子:
6.1
通讯作者:
JACOBOWITZ, DM
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作者:
CROWLEY, WR;ODONOHUE, TL;JACOBOWITZ, DM
Pituitary levels of oxytocin and vasopressin were maximal on the morning of proestrus, declined during estrus and were lowest on metestrus in cycling female rats. Norepinephrine levels in the paraventricular nucleus were decreased on proestrus and estrus when compared with metestrus-diestrus. Norepinephrine did not vary in the supraoptic nucleus. Administration of estradiol benzoate to ovariectomized rats elevated oxytocin in the pituitary 54 h later. This elevation was not affected by a subsequent injection of estrogen or progesterone. Estrogen priming did not affect vasopressin levels in the pituitary, but a 2nd injection of estrogen or of progesterone 48 h later increased vasopressin in the piuitary when measured 6 h after the 2nd injection. Vasopressin was decreased 30 h after a 2nd injection of estrogen. The ovarian hormone treatments that elevated pituitary vasopressin decreased steady state levels of norepinephrine in the paraventricular nucleus and reduced the depletion of norepinephrine after administration of the catecholamine synthesis inhibitor .alpha.-methyltyrosine, suggesting a decrease in turnover. Ovarian hormones did not affect norepinephrine in the supraoptic nucleus. A role for posterior pituitary hormones in reproductive processes and a role for noradrenergic mechanisms in the paraventricular nucleus, in mediating the effects of ovarian steroids on pituitary vasopressin, are suggested.