Diverse effects of tachykinins on luteinizing hormone release in male rats: mechanism of action - PubMed (original) (raw)
Comparative Study
. 1992 Sep;131(3):1195-201.
doi: 10.1210/endo.131.3.1380435.
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- DOI: 10.1210/endo.131.3.1380435
Comparative Study
Diverse effects of tachykinins on luteinizing hormone release in male rats: mechanism of action
P S Kalra et al. Endocrinology. 1992 Sep.
Abstract
The tachykinins are a group of structurally related peptides found in the rat hypothalamus and anterior pituitary. We have evaluated the effects of four tachykinins on LH release in male rats. In intact male rats, intracerebroventricular (icv) injection of neurokinin A (NKA), neuropeptide K (NPK), and neuropeptide-gamma (NP gamma) elicited dose-related, transient increases in plasma LH. Substance P (SP) was ineffective under these conditions. A further examination showed that in vitro incubation with either NPK or NP gamma of hemipituitaries from intact but not castrated male rats promoted release of LH into the medium, thereby revealing that the excitatory effects of tachykinins in intact male rats may, in part, be a result of stimulation of LH release directly from the anterior pituitary. On the other hand, the effects of these four tachykinins on LH release were different in castrated rats. Intracerebroventricular injection of NPK, NKA, and NP gamma as well as SP, which was ineffective in intact male rats, evoked a long-lasting suppression of LH release. Comparatively, NPK was the most effective tachykinin in eliciting LH responses in both of these tests involving different endocrine environments. We next evaluated the possibility that the inhibitory effects of tachykinins (NPK) may be mediated by activation of inhibitory endogenous opioid peptides. The results showed that iv infusion of the opiate receptor antagonist naloxone, to block the possible inhibitory effects of endogenous opioid peptides, only partially counteracted the suppressive effects of icv NPK on plasma LH levels. Thus, in addition to revealing the diverse effects of structurally related tachykinins on LH release, the results of these investigations showed specifically that the NK-2 receptor agonists NPK, NP gamma, and NKA stimulated LH release in intact rats, in part, by a direct action at the level of the pituitary, whereas the NK-1 receptor agonist SP was inactive under these conditions. These findings imply a paracrine/autocrine mode of excitatory action on LH release involving pituitary NK-2 receptor subtypes. On the other hand, in castrated rats, all four tachykinins readily suppressed LH release by a central action involving, in part, an activation of hypothalamic opioid systems.
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