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Endocrinology. 2002 Nov;143(11):4310-9.
Growth hormone, acting in part through the insulin-like growth factor axis, rescues developmental, but not metabolic, activity in the mammary gland of mice expressing a single allele of the prolactin receptor.
Allan GJ, Tonner E, Barber MC, Travers MT, Shand JH, Vernon RG, Kelly PA, Binart N, Flint DJ.
Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale, Unite 344, Faculte de Medecine Necker, 75730 Paris, France.
The heterozygous prolactin (PRL) receptor (PRLR(+/-)) mouse fails to develop a fully functional mammary gland at the end of the first pregnancy and shows markedly impaired lobuloalveolar development and milk secretion in young females. PRL and GH, acting through the IGF system, have interactive effects to enhance epithelial cell survival. Thus, we propose that a reduction in the expression of the PRLR may lead to increased IGFBP-5 expression (proapoptotic) and that GH may rescue mammary development by increasing IGF-I, an important mitogen and survival factor for the mammary epithelium. Mammary IGF-binding protein-5 (IGFBP-5) concentrations and plasmin activity in PRLR(+/-) mice were increased on d 2 postpartum, indicative of increased cell death and extracellular matrix remodeling. After GH treatment, a restoration of mammary alveolar development and a reduction in the activities of IGFBP-5 and plasmin were observed. Despite the severely impaired mammary development in PRLR(+/-) mice, both mRNA and protein expression for caseins and acetyl-coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA) carboxylase and acetyl-CoA caboxylase-alpha mRNA increased at parturition, although not to the extent in wild-type animals. Surprisingly, GH treatment actually led to a further decrease in milk protein and acetyl-CoA carboxylase-alphaexpression when expressed per cell. This was confirmed by the smaller alveolar size, the relative paucity of milk in the mammary glands of GH-treated animals, and the inability of their pups to gain weight. In a subsequent study IGFBP-5 was administered to wild-type mice and produced a 45% decrease in mammary DNA content, a 30% decrease in parenchymal tissue, and impaired lactation. These results suggest that GH can improve mammary development in PRLR(+/-) mice, but that it fails to enhance metabolic activity. This may be due to the maintenance by GH/IGF-I of a proliferative, rather than a differentiative, phenotype.
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Endocrinology. 2002 Nov;143(11):4330-8.
Externalization of annexin I from a folliculo-stellate-like cell line.
Chapman L, Nishimura A, Buckingham JC, Morris JF, Christian HC.
Department of Human Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QX, United Kingdom.
Our recent studies on rat pituitary tissue suggest that the annexin I-dependent inhibitory actions of glucocorticoids may not be exerted directly on endocrine cells but indirectly via folliculo-stellate (FS) cells. FS cells contain glucocorticoid receptors and abundant annexin I. We have studied the localization of annexin I in FS cells and the ability of dexamethasone to induce annexin I secretion by an FS (TtT/GF) cell line, using Western blotting and immunofluorescence microscopy. Exposure of TtT/GF cells to dexamethasone (0.1 micro M, 3 h) caused an increase in the amount of annexin I protein in the intracellular compartment and attached to the surface of the cells. In nonpermeabilized cells, immunofluorescence labeling revealed that annexin I immunoreactivity was associated with the cell surface and concentrated in focal patches on the ends of cytoplasmic processes; dexamethasone (0.1 micro M, 3 h) increased both the number and intensity of these foci. Immunogold electron microscopy confirmed in anterior pituitary tissue the presence of immunoreactive-annexin at the surface of FS cell processes contacting endocrine cells. These data support our hypothesis that annexin I is released by FS cells in response to glucocorticoids to mediate glucocorticoid inhibitory actions on pituitary hormone release via a juxtacrine mechanism.
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Endocrinology. 2002 Nov;143(11):4409-21.
Evidence for the existence of distinct central appetite, energy expenditure, and ghrelin stimulation pathways as revealed by hypothalamic site-specific leptin gene therapy.
Bagnasco M, Dube MG, Kalra PS, Kalra SP.
Department of Neuroscience, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610-0244, USA.
To identify the specific hypothalamic sites in which leptin acts to decrease energy intake and/or increase energy expenditure, recombinant adeno-associated virus vector-encoding leptin was microinjected bilaterally into one of four hypothalamic sites in female rats. Leptin transgene expression in the ventromedial nucleus and paraventricular nucleus induced comparable decreases in daily food intake (FI; 18-20%) and body weight (BW; 26-29%), accompanied by drastic reductions in serum leptin (81-97%), insulin (92-93%), free fatty acids (35-36%), and normoglycemia. Leptin transgene expression in the arcuate nucleus (ARC) decreased BW gain (21%) and FI (11%) to a lesser range, but the metabolic hormones were suppressed to the same extent. Leptin transgene expression in the medial preoptic area (MPOA) decreased BW and metabolic hormones without decreasing FI. Finally, leptin transgene expression in all four sites augmented serum ghrelin and thermogenic energy expenditure, as shown by uncoupling protein-1 mRNA expression in brown adipose tissue. Proopiomelanocortin gene expression in the ARC was up-regulated by leptin expression in all four sites, but neuropeptide Y gene expression in the ARC was suppressed by leptin transgene expression in the ARC but not in the MPOA. Thus, whereas leptin expression in the paraventricular nucleus, ventromedial nucleus, or ARC suppresses adiposity and insulin by decreasing energy intake and increasing energy expenditure, in the MPOA it suppresses these variables by increasing energy expenditure alone.
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Endocrinology. 2002 Nov;143(11):4447-54.
Anatomical and functional evidence for a neural hypothalamic-testicular pathway that is independent of the pituitary.
Lee S, Miselis R, Rivier C.
The Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
Testosterone (T) secretion is classically considered to be under the primary control of pituitary LH, itself regulated by the hypothalamic peptide LH-releasing hormone. Secretagogues present in the general circulation and/or manufactured in the testis can also alter Leydig cell activity independently of the pituitary. Finally, spanchnic innervation regulates testicular LH receptors and blood flow. In the present work, we provide evidence that, in addition, there may be a neural brain-testicular circuit that regulates T release function independently of LH release. We had recently reported that the intracerebroventricular injection of IL-1beta, corticotropin-releasing factor, or beta-adrenergic agonists significantly interfered with the T response to human chorionic gonadotropin through mechanisms that did not involve LH. Here, we show that the injection of the transganglionic retrograde tracer pseudorabies virus into the testes caused viral staining in the spinal cord, the brain stem, and the hypothalamus. This observation indicates the presence of a neural pathway between the central nervous system and the testis. We then demonstrated that spinal cord injury significantly interfered with this staining, thus supporting the hypothesis that the proposed circuit travels through the cord. Finally, we showed that spinal cord injury completely abolished the ability of intracerebroventricularly injected IL-1beta or corticotropin-releasing factor to blunt the T response to human chorionic gonadotropin, which suggests that these two secretagogues act within the brain to stimulate a neural pathway that interferes with Leydig cell function independently of the pituitary. The hitherto unsuspected brain-testicular circuit that these experiments have uncovered may play a role in pathologies, so far unexplained, that are characterized by decreased T levels despite normal LH production.
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Endocrinology. 2002 Nov;143(11):4477-82.
Pituitary hormones are not required for sexual differentiation of male mice: phenotype of the T/ebp/Nkx2.1 null mutant mice.
Pakarinen P, Kimura S, El-Gehani F, Pelliniemi LJ, Huhtaniemi I.
Department of Physiology, University of Turku, FIN-20520 Turku, Finland.
We have studied male sexual differentiation of null mutant mice (-/-) for the thyroid-specific enhancer-binding protein (T/ebp or Nkx2.1) gene, a homeodomain transcription factor that plays a role in organogenesis of the thyroid, lung, ventral forebrain, and pituitary gland. Because the T/ebp/Nkx2.1 (-/-) mice do not develop the pituitary gland, their sexual differentiation, if any, must occur in the absence of action of gonadotropins and other pituitary hormones. The (-/-) mice survive only until birth (embryonic d 19-19.5 of pregnancy), and when their external and internal genitals were inspected at embryonic d 18.5, they were indistinguishable from the (+/-) and (+/+) control mice. The testis weights of (-/-) mice were 20% lower than in (+/+) and (+/-) mice. The testosterone content of the (-/-) testes (13.5 +/- 2.4 pg/gonad, mean +/- SEM, n = 11) was dramatically reduced, compared with (+/-) (165 +/- 22.5 pg, n = 14) and (+/+) (234 +/- 37.3 pg, n = 10) littermates. Light microscopy revealed no difference in seminiferous tubules, interstitial tissue, or relative proportions of the two-cell compartments between the (-/-) and (+/+) testes. However, electron microscopy confirmed that Leydig cells in the (-/-) testes were much smaller, with smaller mitochondria and proportion of smooth endoplasmic reticulum than found in the controls, which was in support of the low androgen content of the knockout testes. In conclusion, this study on T/ebp/Nkx2.1 knockout mice, devoid of the pituitary gland, demonstrates that pituitary hormone secretion is not needed for stimulation of sufficient fetal testicular androgen synthesis to induce male sexual differentiation. The endogenous testosterone level in the null mutant testes is 5-10% of the control level, which suggests that there is a considerable safety margin in the amount of testosterone that is needed for the male fetal masculinization.
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