Abstract:
:Our research programs required the preparation of hypophysectomized and orchidectomized rhesus monkeys. This afforded us the possibility to characterize and compare levels of the gonadotropin and inhibin subunit mRNAs in pituitaries from intact and castrate monkeys. Eighteen adult male monkeys, four of which had been bilaterally orchidectomized 5-9 months previously, were used in this study. Plasma concentrations of LH and FSH were, respectively, 188.5 +/- 5.3 and 246.8 +/- 25.2 ng/ml in the castrate monkeys and 25.8 +/- 4.5 and 4.1 +/- 1.1 ng/ml (mean +/- SEM) in the intact animals. Total pituitary RNA was hybridized to cDNA probes for cynomolgus monkey gonadotropin subunits (FSH beta, LH beta, and the common alpha-subunit) and for human inhibin subunits (alpha, beta B, and beta A) by Northern blot analysis, and mRNA levels were normalized by subsequent hybridization to cyclophilin. Each of the gonadotropin subunit probes hybridized to a single RNA species with the approximate sizes of 1.6 kilobases (kb; FSH beta), 0.7 kb (LH beta), and 0.8 kb (alpha). Levels of LH beta and alpha-subunit mRNAs in pituitaries from castrate monkeys were about 5- and 2-fold higher, respectively, than those in pituitaries from intact monkeys. FSH beta mRNA, on the other hand, was elevated about 27-fold in castrate monkeys [mean +/- SEM, 3176 +/- 408 cpm bound (n = 4 castrate) and 116 +/- 30 cpm bound (n = 8 intact]). Inhibin beta B-subunit mRNA was present in the monkey pituitary as a doublet of about 5 kb, and it was approximately twice as abundant in intact pituitaries as in castrate pituitaries. Hybridizations involving inhibin beta A cDNA revealed a faint band in the region expected for monkey beta A mRNA (6.5 kb) in three of six RNA samples from intact monkeys and a 0.3- to 0.4-kb mRNA species. mRNA encoding the inhibin alpha-subunit was undetectable by Northern blot hybridization. These results indicate that the postpubertal testis imposes an inhibition on the expression of the genes encoding FSH beta, LH beta, and glycoprotein hormone alpha-subunit and that this suppression of the FSH beta gene in the monkey is much greater than that in the rat. In addition, the monkey pituitary may be a source of activin, which may act locally to modulate FSH gene expression and secretion.
journal_name
Endocrinologyjournal_title
Endocrinologyauthors
Attardi B,Marshall GR,Zorub DS,Winters SJ,Miklos J,Plant TMdoi
10.1210/endo.130.3.1537290subject
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1992-03-01 00:00:00pages
1238-44issue
3eissn
0013-7227issn
1945-7170journal_volume
130pub_type
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