Project III - Steroidal and Metabolic Mediation of Reproductive Behavior

项目 III - 生殖行为的类固醇和代谢调节

• 批准号: 8324904
• 负责人: THERESA M LEE
• 金额: $ 40.15万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8324904
• 关键词: Accounting; Address; Adult; Affect; Androgens; Animal Model; Animals; Award; Behavior; Behavior Control; Copulation; Cues; Data; Development; Disease; Dose; Eating; Eating Disorders; Environment; Estrus; Exhibits; Exposure to; Feeding behaviors; Female; Fetus; Financial compensation; Food; Functional disorder; Gene Expression; Goals; Gonadal Steroid Hormones; Growth; Human; Hyperandrogenism; Hyperinsulinism; Infertility; Insulin; Intervention; Mammals; Masculine; Mediation; Metabolic; Metabolic Control; Metabolism; Morphology; Motivation; Nervous system structure; Neural Pathways; Neuroanatomy; Obesity; Outcome; Ovarian; Pathway interactions; Pattern; Perception; Perinatal Exposure; Phenotype; Predisposition; Pregnancy; Probability; Property; Puberty; Public Health; Reproduction; Reproductive Behavior; Reproductive Health; Rewards; Risk; Role; Sex Behavior; Sheep; Signal Transduction; Social Hierarchy; Steroid Receptors; Steroids; Stimulus; Syndrome; Testing; Testosterone; Time; Variant; Ventral Tegmental Area; Woman; attenuation; behavior influence; critical period; driving behavior; feeding; in utero; insulin sensitivity; life history; male; mesolimbic system; neural circuit; novel; postnatal; prenatal; prenatal exposure; programs; protein expression; reproductive; reproductive development; research study; response; reward circuitry

Female fetuses exposed to Testosterone (T) produce variable outcomes in reproductive behavior as a function of the timing and dose of exposure. Prenatal T causes hyperinsulinemia and functional hyperandrogenism in ewes, typical of women with polycystic ovarian syndrome who develop severe metabolic and reproductive dysfunction. Prenatal T-treated sheep, exposed to T for 30 days of a critical period are phenotypically female, capable of copulation, but vary in the amount and type of sex behavior exhibited. Because all females were exposed to the same prenatal T treatment, these data suggest that postnatal life history influences behavioral outcomes, not just prenatal exposure to T. Prenatal T-treated sheep produce behavior typical of increased motivation for food intake and reward perception for foodassociated signals. This alteration in goal-directed behavior likely develops because the animals have excess insulin, leading to altered metabolism and increased salience of food cues. Animals vie for access to food, eventually establishing a social hierarchy. Higher ranking T-treated females exhibit more male-typical behavior than controls. Thus, the variation in adult sex behavior of T-treated females may be the result of an interaction between the effects of prenatal T on metabolism, which alters rewarding properties of food and variably influences social hierarchy, with the predisposition towards male-typical behavior also caused by prenatal T. We hypothesize that prenatal T exposure leads directly or indirectly to altered mesolimbic pathways responsible for goal-directed and rewarding behaviors. Proposed experiments will test whether postnatal attenuation of hyperinsulinemia or hyperandrogenism alters goal-directed behaviors associated with reproduction. We will test the hypotheses that prenatal-T treatment 1) alters motivation and reward perception of stimuli during development and in adults, 2) that postnatal treatment of androgenic and insulin sensitivity will alter motivation and reward responses for reproductive and feeding stimuli, and 3) prenatal Ttreatment affects behavior by altering gene and protein expression in the mesolimbic motivation/reward circuitry.

暴露于睾酮(T)的女性胎儿在生殖行为中产生不同的结果