Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28716938›Full record

ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Dynamic responses of the adrenal steroidogenic regulatory network.

Francesca Spiga, Eder Zavala, Jamie J Walker, Zidong Zhao, John R Terry, Stafford L Lightman

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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  20. Mathematical Modelling of Endocrine Systems.Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Francesca SpigaHenry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology, University of Bristol, Bristol BS1 3NY, United Kingdom; f.spiga@bristol.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-6904-2247
Eder ZavalaLiving Systems Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QD, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-5467-6036
Jamie J WalkerHenry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology, University of Bristol, Bristol BS1 3NY, United Kingdom.
Zidong ZhaoHenry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology, University of Bristol, Bristol BS1 3NY, United Kingdom.
John R TerryLiving Systems Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QD, United Kingdom.
Stafford L LightmanHenry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology, University of Bristol, Bristol BS1 3NY, United Kingdom.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/J008893/1Medical Research Council MR/N008936/1Medical Research Council MR/P014747/1Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust WT105618MA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis is a dynamic system regulating glucocorticoid hormone synthesis in the adrenal glands. Many key factors within the adrenal steroidogenic pathway have been identified and studied, but little is known about how these factors function collectively as a dynamic network of interacting components. To investigate this, we developed a mathematical model of the adrenal steroidogenic regulatory network that accounts for key regulatory processes occurring at different timescales. We used our model to predict the time evolution of steroidogenesis in response to physiological adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) perturbations, ranging from basal pulses to larger stress-like stimulations (e.g., inflammatory stress). Testing these predictions experimentally in the rat, our results show that the steroidogenic regulatory network architecture is sufficient to respond to both small and large ACTH perturbations, but coupling this regulatory network with the immune pathway is necessary to explain the dissociated dynamics between ACTH and glucocorticoids observed under conditions of inflammatory stress.

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Models, TheoreticalAdrenal GlandsAdrenocorticotropic HormoneAnimalsGlucocorticoidsHypothalamo-Hypophyseal SystemInflammationLipopolysaccharidesMalePituitary-Adrenal SystemRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyStress, PhysiologicalAdrenocorticotropic HormoneGlucocorticoidsLipopolysaccharidesadrenal glandglucocorticoidsmathematical modelingsteroidogenesisstress response

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PMID28716938
PMCPMC5547620

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