Corticosterone binding to hippocampus: immediate and delayed influences of the absence of adrenal secretion.
Corticosterone binding to hippocampus: immediate and delayed influences of the absence of adrenal secretion.
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皮质酮与海马体的结合:肾上腺分泌缺乏的直接和延迟影响。
DOI:
10.1016/0006-8993(74)90321-7
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发表时间:
1974
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
C. Magnus
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作者:
B. McEwen;G. Wallach;C. Magnus
Binding of [3H]corticosterone to soluble (cytosol) and cell nuclear binding sites in hippocampus of rat brain was studied in relationship to the presence or the short-term and long-term absence of endogenous corticosterone secretion. (1) Saturable binding is detectablein vivoin normal rats, but endogenous hormone, including secretion evoked by stress of injecting [3H]corticosterone, can interfere with measurement of bindingin vivoby both competing for binding sites and displacing bound hormone from binding sites. (2) After bilateral adrenalectomy, there is a rapid increase in availablein vivocorticosterone binding sites for up to 2 h, as endogenous corticosterone levels fall, followed by a longer-term increase in total binding capacity which approaches a plateau over several days after the operation. (3)In vitrostudies of uptake of [3H]corticosterone both to hippocampal cell nuclei in tissue slices and to cytosol binding proteins in hippocampal homogenates also show the two post-adrenalectomy increases. The second increase begins more than 11 h after adrenalectomy, so that [3H]corticosterone binding capacity either 2 or 11 h after the operation appears to reflect the capacity in intact rats in the absence of endogenous hormone. (4) Thyroidectomy and hypophysectomy, which prevent increases in serum corticosterone binding activity which follows adrenalectomy, fail to block increases in hippocampal corticosterone binding. (5) Long-term increases in hippocampal binding capacity are foundin vivoas well asin vitroin both the cytosol and cell nuclear fractions. Thus, while separate mechanisms governing entry of the hormone into the cell nuclei are entirely possible, they are not required to explain the present results. (6) Thein vivodose of corticosterone in adrenalectomized rats which half-maximally saturated the hippocampal cell nuclear binding sites is estimated to be around 15 μg. This dose produces serum corticosterone levels at 10 min after injection which are in the range of resting morning levels of corticosterone in normal rats. It is concluded that the hippocampal corticosterone binding system operates within the normal daily range of endogenous corticosterone.