Peripubertal development of noradrenergic stimulation of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone neurosecretion in vitro.
Peripubertal development of noradrenergic stimulation of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone neurosecretion in vitro.
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体外去甲肾上腺素能刺激黄体生成素释放激素神经分泌的青春期围发育。
DOI:
10.1016/0006-8993(88)91302-9
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发表时间:
1988
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2.9
通讯作者:
Sladek,CD
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作者:
Clough,RW;Hoffman,GE;Sladek,CD
The effect of age on norepinephrine (NE) stimulation of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) secretion from preoptic area-mediobasal hypothalamic (POA-MBH) explants was examined in the present study. Explants were obtained from juvinile (9-day-old), prepubertal (29-day-old) and adult female rats. Following decapitation and surgical isolation, POA-MBH explants were individually perifused with culture medium which was collected for radioimmunoassay of LH-RH. Explants were exposed to two pulses of medium containing NE (5 × 10−4M, peak concentration) and a terminal pulse of medium containing KCl (45 mM, peak concentration) for assessment of viability. POA-MBH explants obtained from prepubertal female rats exhibited increased LH-RH release in response to the two pulses of NE and subsequent KCl pulse (P< 0.05). NE was without effect in stimulating LH-RH neurosecretion from POA-MBH explants obtained from 9-day-old female rats although these explants were responsive to KCl (P< 0.01). Two-day pretreatment of 9-day-old, and prepubertal rats with estradiol benzoate (EB) did not alter the LH-RH response to this dose of NE or KCl (no group or interaction effects) in prepubertal female rat explants and did not render the explants from 9-day-old rats responsive to NE. Furthermore, NE was equally effective in stimulating LH-RH release from explants obtained from estradiol-treated or control ovariectomized adult rats. These observations demonstrate a peripubertal activation of the stimulatory effect of NE on LH-RH release from POA-MBH explants in vitro. Although these data also suggest that estrogen is not obligatory for NE stimulation of LH-RH release from POA-MBH explants, further investigation is required to determine the developmental time course and estrogen dependency of the noradrenergic stimulation of LH-RH neurosecretion and to evaluate whether estrogen alters the sensitivity of POA-MBH explants to lower concentrations of NE as has been previously reported for median eminence fragments.