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JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 302-309Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2011.02114.x
Keywords
dopamine; AMPA; luteinising hormone; cGnRH-II; activin; isotocin; gene expression
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- OGS
- Parkinson's Research Consortium of Ottawa
- NSERC
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Previous microarray analyses of the goldfish hypothalamus led us to hypothesise that dopamine could potentially inhibit the excitatory effects of glutamate on luteinising hormone (LH). Post-spawning female goldfish were pre-treated (-4.5 h) with either saline (C; control), SCH 23390 (S; D-1-receptor antagonist) or sulpiride (L; D-2-receptor antagonist), followed by an i.p. injection, at -0.5 h, of saline or the glutamate agonist AMPA (A, SA or LA). Blood, hypothalamus and telencephalon tissues were collected. Serum LH was not affected in the S, L, A, or LA groups relative to control as determined by radioimmunoassay. The SA group, however, showed a 289% (P < 0.0005) increase in serum LH compared to either treatment alone or control. Real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction identified the mRNAs for ionotropic (Gria2a, Gria4) glutamate receptor subunits, activin beta a, isotocin, and cGnRH-II as being significantly affected by some of the treatments. The same experiment conducted with sexually-regressed female fish showed a very different LH profile, indicating that this mechanism is seasonally-dependent. We also show that i.p. injection of 1 mu g/g isotocin was able to increase LH levels by 167% in sexually regressed female fish relative to controls. Taken together, these results demonstrate that blockage of the D-1 receptor primes post-spawning goldfish for AMPA-stimulated LH release, and provides further insights into the central regulation of reproduction.
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