Abstract:
:We recently showed, using a new immunocytochemical technique, that aromatase-immunoreactive neurons are a specific marker for the sexually dimorphic medial preoptic nucleus (POM) in quail and that the number of these immunoreactive cells is markedly increased by a systemic treatment with testosterone (T). Since the POM is a key site for the activation of copulatory behavior by T and this androgen must be converted into estrogen by local aromatization within the POM before it can exert its behavioral effects, we used aromatase immunocytochemistry to map, at a cellular level of resolution, the areas that are destroyed by electrolytic lesions or that are stimulated by the stereotaxic implantation of T in the preoptic area (POA). These measures of the cellular action of T in the preoptic area were then correlated with the behavior of the animals to identify the parts of the POA that are critical in the activation of behavior. The electrolytic lesions of the POA disrupted the activation of male sexual behavior by T only if they destroyed a significant part of the POM. All lesions reduced the volume of the dimorphic nucleus and the absolute number of its aromatase-immunoreactive neurons, but the density of these cells in the remaining POM was not affected, suggesting that the volume change in the nucleus reflected a centripetal displacement of its boundaries rather than an overall shrinkage of the structure. Stereotaxic T implants in or close to POM activated male copulatory behavior and increased the volume of the POM and the number of its aromatase-immunoreactive cells. These neuroanatomical effects were more prominent on the side of the implant, but they were also detected on the contralateral side. Correlative analyses suggested that a part of the POM just rostral to the anterior commissure is critical for the activation of copulatory behavior. The best correlations between the behavioral deficits induced by electrolytic lesions and the size of the lesions were indeed observed in this area. In addition, high correlations were also observed between the behavior activated by T implants and the POM size or number of aromatase-immunoreactive cells that were induced by T in this area. Aromatase immunocytochemistry therefore appears as a useful tool to map the brain areas in which T action is presumably critical for the activation of male sexual behavior. It has allowed us to identify in the present studies a small part of the sexually dimorphic POM that is closely associated with behavior.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
journal_name
Physiol Behavjournal_title
Physiology & behaviorauthors
Balthazart J,Surlemont C,Harada Ndoi
10.1016/0031-9384(92)90158-xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1992-02-01 00:00:00pages
395-409issue
2eissn
0031-9384issn
1873-507Xpii
0031-9384(92)90158-Xjournal_volume
51pub_type
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