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ArticleScientific reports2021

Gnrh2 maintains reproduction in fasting zebrafish through dynamic neuronal projection changes and regulation of gonadotropin synthesis, oogenesis, and reproductive behaviors.

Miranda Marvel, Berta Levavi-Sivan, Ten-Tsao Wong, Nilli Zmora, Yonathan Zohar

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Miranda MarvelDepartment of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, 21202, USA.
Berta Levavi-SivanDepartment of Animal Sciences, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 76100, Rehovot, Israel.
Ten-Tsao WongDepartment of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, 21202, USA.
Nilli ZmoraDepartment of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, 21202, USA.
Yonathan ZoharDepartment of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, 21202, USA. zohar@umbc.edu.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County · USHebrew University of Jerusalem · IL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Restricted food intake, either from lack of food sources or endogenous fasting, during reproductive periods is a widespread phenomenon across the animal kingdom. Considering previous studies show the canonical upstream regulator of reproduction in vertebrates, the hypothalamic Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (Gnrh), is inhibited in some fasting animals, we sought to understand the neuroendocrine control of reproduction in fasted states. Here, we explore the roles of the midbrain neuropeptide, Gnrh2, in inducing reproduction via its pituitary prevalence, gonadotropin synthesis, gametogenesis, and reproductive outputs in the zebrafish model undergoing different feeding regimes. We discovered a fasting-induced four-fold increase in length and abundance of Gnrh2 neuronal projections to the pituitary and in close proximity to gonadotropes, whereas the hypothalamic Gnrh3 neurons are reduced by six-fold in length. Subsequently, we analyzed the functional roles of Gnrh2 by comparing reproductive parameters of a Gnrh2-depleted model, gnrh2

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OogenesisReproductionAnimalsAnimals, Genetically ModifiedFastingGonadotropin-Releasing HormoneGonadotropinsNeuritesNeuronsPituitary GlandZebrafishGonadotropin-Releasing HormoneGonadotropinsLHRH, His(5)-Trp(7)-Tyr(8)-

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