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Insulin receptors in the pituitary gland: morphological evidence for influence on opioid peptide-synthesizing cells.

Abstract：

:Previous investigations have demonstrated that peripheral insulin has a significant influence on brain function and that the interaction of insulin with neuropeptides in neuroendocrine regions may be pivotal for the regulation of body metabolism and energy balance. Since the various levels of interactions are only incompletely known, the focus of the present study has been the adenohypophysis of the rat, in which the presence and localization of insulin receptors and the structurally and functionally closely related insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) receptor has been investigated by light- and electron-microscopic immunocytochemistry. The two receptors are found on separate subpopulations of secretory cells of the pars distalis with a preponderance of IGF-1 receptors in a postero-lateral portion of large endocrine cells, insulin receptors being more widely dispersed throughout the pars distalis in a population of smaller, irregularly shaped cells. Insulin receptors, but not IGF-1 receptors, are also located in a subpopulation of secretory cells in the intermediate lobe. Phosphotyrosine, a marker for substrates of receptor tyrosine kinases, has been detected in numerous cells throughout the anterior and intermediate lobe, including the cell populations containing insulin or IGF-1 receptors, indicating their ability to transduce biological signals in the pituitary in vivo. Almost 90% of cells containing insulin receptors are also immunoreactive for beta-endorphin. In contrast, IGF-1 receptors are almost exclusively located on cells secreting follicle-stimulating hormone, suggesting a regulatory role of IGF-1 in the pituitary gonadotropin system. The relationship between beta-endorphin and insulin receptors provides further evidence for the hypothesis that peripheral insulin acts as a regulatory hormone in the control of body energy homeostasis via various steps of the neuroendocrine axis, including opioid peptides in the hypothalamus and pituitary known to play an important role in the regulation of feeding behaviour.

journal_name

Cell Tissue Res

journal_title

Cell and tissue research

authors

Unger JW,Lange W

doi

10.1007/s004410050833

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1997-06-01 00:00:00

pages

471-83

issue

eissn

0302-766X

issn

1432-0878

journal_volume

288

pub_type

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Insulin receptors in the pituitary gland: morphological evidence for influence on opioid peptide-synthesizing cells.