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Pineal melatonin concentrations during day and night in the adult hedgehog: effect of a light pulse at night and superior cervical ganglionectomy.

Abstract：

:The European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus L.) is a hibernating mammal and seasonal breeder in which numerous circadian and circannual rhythms are entrained and synchronized by photoperiod. The present study was undertaken in order to establish the involvement of the pineal gland in transducing the photoperiodic message in this species. Pineal melatonin concentrations were determined by radioimmunoassay in female hedgehogs kept under natural climatic conditions and killed during the light:dark (L:D) cycle in spring and autumn, after the interruption of darkness by a 45 min light pulse, and after bilateral superior cervical ganglionectomy (SCGx). Absolute melatonin concentrations were low (less than 100 pg/pineal) in the pineal gland. Under natural climatic conditions, in spring and in autumn, pineal melatonin concentrations exhibited a marked diurnal rhythmicity, with very low levels in the day (1200: less than 10 pg/pineal) and high levels during the night (2200: 71.9 +/- 18.6 pg/pineal; 0200: 42.5 +/- 15.6 pg/pineal). The 45 min light pulse during darkness depressed rapidly and significantly the melatonin content (dark + light [D + L]: less than 10 pg/pineal), but a subsequent return to darkness restored high melatonin content after approximately 2 h (D + L + D: 65.4 +/- 20.2 pg/pineal). After bilateral SCGx, melatonin concentrations were reduced and no increase during night could be observed, either in animals sacrificed 42 days after SCGx or in animals killed 2 years after SCGx. In the hedgehog, as in other mammals, pineal melatonin concentrations are related to the light:dark cycle. Such data indicate that during the year, in this species, the effects of light on seasonal endocrine rhythms may be mediated by the pineal gland.

journal_name

J Pineal Res

journal_title

Journal of pineal research

authors

Saboureau M,Vivien-Roels B,Pevet P

doi

10.1111/j.1600-079x.1991.tb00462.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1991-09-01 00:00:00

pages

92-8

issue

eissn

0742-3098

issn

1600-079X

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Pineal melatonin concentrations during day and night in the adult hedgehog: effect of a light pulse at night and superior cervical ganglionectomy.