Effect of Catechol Estrogens on the Preovulatory Content of Luteinizing Hormone-Releasing Hormone in the Median Eminence of the Rat
作者:
Yuji Okatani,
Jack Fishman,
期刊:
Neuroendocrinology
(Karger Available online 1986)
卷期:
Volume 44,
issue 2
页码: 190-194
ISSN:0028-3835
年代: 1986
DOI:10.1159/000124644
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Catechol estrogens;LHRH/LH surge;Median eminence
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
Cycling rats injected with 2-hydroxyestrone or 2-hydroxyestradiol at 09.00 or 10.00 h in the morning of proestrus do not express the normal preovulatory LH surge in the afternoon of the day. The LHRH content of the median eminence in control animals decreases sharply in the afternoon from elevated noon and morning levels. The catechol estrogen-treated rats fail to show the decrease. Thus the catechol estrogens block the LH surge at its usual time by influencing the changes in the concentration of LHRH in the median eminence on proestrus. Since the catechol estrogens have short biological half-lives, their effect on the LHRHcontent in the afternoon must originate in the morning at the time of the endogenous estradiol (E2) peak. These results have implications in the physiological processes responsible for the positive feedback of estradiol on the preovulatory LH surge in the rat.
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