Melanin-concentrating hormone-like immunoreactive material in the rat hypothalamus; characterization and subcellular localization - PubMed (original) (raw)

Melanin-concentrating hormone-like immunoreactive material in the rat hypothalamus; characterization and subcellular localization

N Naito et al. Cell Tissue Res. 1988 Aug.

Abstract

Melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) is a neurosecretory peptide that induces melanin concentration within teleost melanophores. Here, we characterized MCH-like substance in the rat brain by both an in vitro fish-scale melanophore bioassay and a radioimmunoassay with a salmon MCH antiserum that is directed toward the carboxy-terminus and requires the cyclic configuration for recognition. Furthermore, subcellular localization of the MCH in the rat brain was examined by immunocytochemistry using electron microscopy. We confirmed that MCH-immunoreactivity and MCH-bioactivity were present together in the same effluent fractions of the rat hypothalamic extracts by reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). At electron microscopic level, MCH-immunoreactivity was located specifically in secretory granules in MCH-positive cell bodies confined to the hypothalamus with their neuronal processes projecting widely in the rat brain. Although full characterization of substance must await its isolation, our results strongly support the notion that rat MCH-like substance may be homologous but not identical to salmon MCH, and simultaneously may serve some neurotransmitter and/or neuromodulator role in the brain of the rat.

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Melanin-concentrating hormone-like immunoreactive material in the rat hypothalamus; characterization and subcellular localization - PubMed (original) (raw)