Naloxone Prevents Dark-Background Adaptation in Amphibians
作者:
Stewart P. Mennin,
Linda C. Saland,
期刊:
Neuroendocrinology
(Karger Available online 1980)
卷期:
Volume 31,
issue 6
页码: 385-389
ISSN:0028-3835
年代: 1980
DOI:10.1159/000123108
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Naloxone;Melanocyte-stimulating hormone;Amphibians
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
Pituitary intermediate lobe melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) is responsible for normal skin darkening in amphibians. Light-background adapted frogs (Rana pipiens) injected with naloxone and placed on black backgrounds maintain melanophore indices and pituitary cytology characteristic of light-background adaptation. In vitro and in vivo experiments showed that naloxone hydrochloride did not have a direct effect on skin melanophores or on the neurointer-mediate lobe. These data suggest that naloxone acts at the level of the central nervous system to inhibit the mechanism(s) responsible for release of MSH when light-background adapted frogs are placed on a dark background. Release of MSH, known to be tonically inhibited by the hypothalamus, may be modulated by opiate receptor-dependent mechanisms.
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