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Neuropeptide Y and luteinizing hormone releasing hormone synergize to stimulate the development of cellular follicle-stimulating hormone in the hamster adenohypophysis
Authors:MJ Woller  GT Campbell  CA Blake
Affiliation:Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia 29208, USA.
Abstract:Luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) stimulates the development of cellular FSH immunoreactivity in the perinatal hamster adenohypophysis. Because neuropeptide Y (NPY) can act directly on rat adenohypophysial cells to stimulate FSH and LH release and potentiate the stimulatory effect of LHRH on FSH and LH release, we investigated the effects of NPY alone and in combination with a low, ineffective dose of LHRH on inducing cellular FSH immunoreactivity in the neonatal hamster adenohypophysis. Neonatal female pituitary glands were grafted beneath the right renal capsules of hypophysectomized-ovariectomized adult hamster hosts with a catheter implanted in the external jugular vein. After treatment, hosts were decapitated and graft tissue was stained for FSH and LH immunoreactivity. The mean percentage of adenohypophysial cells that stained for FSH was low (2.8%) in grafts in hosts infused continuously with heparinized saline vehicle for 7 days. In other hosts, peptides were pulsed through the catheter every 12 h for 7 days. The mean percentage of FSH cells also was low after pulsing 6 ng LHRH or 2 micrograms NPY but increased substantially when the two peptides were pulsed simultaneously. No differences in the mean percentage of LH cells existed between any of the groups. The results demonstrate that NPY and LHRH can synergize to induce cellular FSH immunoreactivity in the neonatal female hamster.
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