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ArticleCommunications biology2024

Day length regulates gonadotrope proliferation and reproduction via an intra-pituitary pathway in the model vertebrate Oryzias latipes.

Muhammad Rahmad Royan, Kjetil Hodne, Rasoul Nourizadeh-Lillabadi, Finn-Arne Weltzien, Christiaan Henkel, Romain Fontaine

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Article in Communications biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The role of omentin-1 in female reproduction: a critical review.The Journal of reproduction and development · 2026
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  2. Emerging Perspectives on Gonadotropin Regulation in Vertebrates Revealed by the Discovery of FSH-RH in Teleosts.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Muhammad Rahmad RoyanDepartment of Preclinical Science and Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.
Kjetil HodneDepartment of Preclinical Science and Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.
Rasoul Nourizadeh-LillabadiDepartment of Preclinical Science and Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.
Finn-Arne WeltzienDepartment of Preclinical Science and Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-5111-1558
Christiaan HenkelDepartment of Preclinical Science and Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.ORCID 0000-0001-9838-8215
Romain FontaineDepartment of Preclinical Science and Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway. romain.fontaine@nmbu.no.ORCID 0000-0003-1123-9773
Norwegian University of Life Sciences · NO

Funding

Fiskeri - og havbruksnæringens forskningsfond (Norwegian Seafood Research Fund) 901590Norges Forskningsråd (Research Council of Norway) 243811
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In seasonally breeding mammals and birds, the production of the hormones that regulate reproduction (gonadotropins) is controlled by a complex pituitary-brain-pituitary pathway. Indeed, the pituitary thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) regulates gonadotropin expression in pituitary gonadotropes, via dio2-expressing tanycytes, hypothalamic Kisspeptin, RFamide-related peptide, and gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons. However, in fish, how seasonal environmental signals influence gonadotropins remains unclear. In addition, the seasonal regulation of gonadotrope (gonadotropin-producing cell) proliferation in the pituitary is, to the best of our knowledge, not elucidated in any vertebrate group. Here, we show that in the vertebrate model Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes), a long day seasonally breeding fish, photoperiod (daylength) not only regulates hormone production by the gonadotropes but also their proliferation. We also reveal an intra-pituitary pathway that regulates gonadotrope cell number and hormone production. In this pathway, Tsh regulates gonadotropes via folliculostellate cells within the pituitary. This study suggests the existence of an alternative regulatory mechanism of seasonal gonadotropin production in fish.

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OryziasAnimalsGonadotropin-Releasing HormoneGonadotropinsMammalsReproductionSeasonsThyrotropinVertebratesGonadotropin-Releasing HormoneGonadotropinsThyrotropin

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PMID38553567
PMCPMC10980775
OpenAlexW4393344813

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