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Central stimulatory influence of oxytocin on preovulatory gonadotropin-releasing hormone requires more than the median eminence.

Abstract：

:The study was designed to determine whether the ability of central oxytocin (OT) to stimulate gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) on the afternoon of proestrus (PE) in the cycling female rat is mediated at the level of GnRH terminals within the median eminence (ME), or at higher hypothalamic levels where GnRH cell bodies and axons are located. Determining the location of this OT effect in vivo has proven difficult. Therefore, an in vitro system utilizing ME or basal hypothalamic (BH) explants containing GnRH terminals, or GnRH neurons including the cell bodies, axons and terminals, respectively, were harvested from regular cycling female rats at 15:00 h on PE or diestrus (DI). The explants were allowed to preincubate in Krebs Ringer Bicarbonate Buffer containing glucose, ascorbic acid, calcium, and a metalloprotease inhibitor (KRBG) and enriched with 95% O(2)/5% CO(2) at 37 degrees C until a stable baseline release of GnRH was achieved (30 min). The 0.05 level of probability was used as the minimum criterion of significance in all experiments. The ability of OT (10(-15)--10(-9) M) to stimulate the release of GnRH was determined in both ME and BH explants on PE and DI. The results demonstrated a sensitive, dose-dependent ability of OT to stimulate GnRH release from PE BH explants which was observed only in PE. Furthermore, OT failed to significantly stimulate GnRH release from ME explants on either PE or DI. The data indicate that the PE BH explant paradigm can be used to examine the manner and mechanisms by which OT influences GnRH release on the afternoon of PE. Furthermore, the results indicate for the first time that the stimulatory action of OT by itself on preovulatory GnRH release in cycling female rats is not mediated at the level of the GnRH terminals within the ME, but requires neuronal interactions and mechanisms within the BH explants.

journal_name

Neuroendocrinology

journal_title

Neuroendocrinology

authors

Selvage D,Johnston CA

doi

10.1159/000054678

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-08-01 00:00:00

pages

129-34

issue

eissn

0028-3835

issn

1423-0194

pii

54678

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Central stimulatory influence of oxytocin on preovulatory gonadotropin-releasing hormone requires more than the median eminence.