Rapid Increase in LHRH MRNA Levels Following NMDA

Overview

Journal Endocrinology

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Endocrinology

Date 1991 Sep 1

PMID 1874197

Citations 10

Authors

S L Petersen

S McCrone

M Keller

E Gardner

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Abstract

To test the hypothesis that changes in LHRH mRNA levels are tightly linked to changes in LHRH secretion, intact male rats were infused with NMDA, a substance which increases LH release by a hypothalamic action. NMDA significantly elevated cellular levels of LHRH mRNA at 15 and 60 min. Similar changes in LH levels were induced by NMDA. These effects of NMDA on LHRH mRNA levels were not due to a generalized excitatory effect in the brain because levels of mRNAs encoding proopiomelanocortin (POMC) and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) in the arcuate-periarcuate region were not altered by NMDA and levels of TH mRNA were decreased significantly at 15 and 60 min in neurons of the zona incerta. These data strongly support the hypothesis that changes in cellular levels of LHRH mRNA are tightly linked temporally to changes in LHRH secretion.

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