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ArticleEndocrine1995

Effects of corticosterone and testosterone on pituitary gonadotropin content, secretion, bioactivity and messenger RNA levels in the presence or absence of GnRH in male rats.

J M McAndrews, S J Ringstrom, K D Dahl, N B Schwartz

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Article in Endocrine, 1995. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

J M McAndrewsDepartment of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University, 60208, Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A..
S J Ringstrom
K D Dahl
N B Schwartz
Northwestern University · USUniversity of Washington Medical Center · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The effects of corticosterone (B) and testosterone (T) on pituitary and serum bioactive and immunoreactive gonadotropins and on gonadotropin hormone subunit messenger RNA levels were compared in the absence of GnRH. Male rats were implanted with pellets of either cholesterol, B or T. At implantation, 2 and 4 days later half of each group received GnRH antagonist and animals were killed 5 days after implantation. As expected, GnRH antagonist lowered bioactive and immunoreactive serum FSH and LH, pituitary FSH, LHβ and FSHβ mRNA. B treatment alone lowered bioactive and immunoreactive serum FSH and immunoreactive serum LH. B reversed the antagonist effect on bioactive and immunoreactive pituitary FSH and FSHβ mRNA. T alone lowered bioactive and immunoreactive serum FSH and LH levels. T reversed the antagonist effect on bioactive and immunoreactive pituitary FSH. T lowered bioactive and immunoreactive pituitary LH and LHβ mRNA and partially reversed the antagonist effect on FSHβ mRNA. The data suggest that either B or T enhance FSH synthesis by acting directly at the gonadotrope, but that B does not affect LH variables to the same extent as T. The results suggest that in stressed animals, when T levels are reduced, B can substitute for T in sustaining FSH synthesis.

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