THE ROLE OF CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING FACTOR IN PRIMATE MATERNAL BEHAVIOR

促肾上腺皮质激素释放因子在灵长类动物母体行为中的作用

• 批准号: 7716442
• 负责人: WENDY SALTZMAN
• 金额: $ 4.1万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-23 至 2009-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7716442
• 关键词: Acute; Adrenal Glands; Affect; Animals; Biological Assay; Brain; Breeding; Callithrix; Chronic; Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects Database; Condition; Corticotropin; Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone; Disruption; Endocrine; Female; Funding; Grant; Human; Hydrocortisone; Hypothalamic structure; Institution; Mammals; Maternal Behavior; Monkeys; Mothers; Neuropeptides; Neurosecretory Systems; Pituitary Gland; Primates; Publications; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Role; Series; Services; Source; Stress; United States National Institutes of Health; experience; relating to nervous system; research study; response

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. To characterize the effect of corticotropin-releasing factor in stress-related disruption of primate maternal behavior. Stress can inhibit maternal behavior in humans and other mammals; however, this effect is poorly understood, and the neural and neuroendocrine mechanisms are unknown. To begin to elucidate the mechanisms by which stress can alter maternal behavior in primates, we are conducting a series of experiments investigating the interactions between maternal behavior and stress in marmoset monkeys. Initial results indicate that lactating females may show altered neuroendocrine responses to stress as compared to non-breeding females, including somewhat dampened pituitary secretion of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) but elevated adrenocortical release of cortisol, resulting in a significantly altered cortisol:ACTH ratio. Second, we have found that neither acute nor chronic treatment with exogenous cortisol markedly affects maternal behavior in experienced mothers, under either baseline or stressful conditions. In contrast, initial findings from an ongoing experiment suggest that direct administration of the neuropeptide corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) into the brain inhibits maternal responsiveness in lactating females. These results, although preliminary, suggest that stress may disrupt maternal behavior primarily through direct neural effects of CRF rather than through activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal endocrine axis. This research used Animal Services and Assay Services. Publications are pending.

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