Journal
STEROIDS
Volume 67, Issue 3-4, Pages 277-289Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-128X(01)00159-3
Keywords
steroid-induced sterility; androgens; estrogens; ontogeny; immune adaptation; hormone receptors; cellular aging; cellular immaturity
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In the present paper. we report that injection of testosterone propionate (500 mug) during the critical window of rat development (postnatal day 5) induces temporary appearance of aged interstitial cells in developing ovaries (days 7 and 10). Aged interstitial cells showed large size (greater than or equal to 12 mum), enhanced androgen receptor (AR) and low estrogen (ER) and luteinizing hormone receptor (LHR) expression. Although normal mature interstitial cells (large size and strong ER and LHR expression) appeared later (day 14), and ovaries of androgenized rats were similar to normal ovaries between days 14 and 35, ovaries of adult androgenized females showed only aged and no mature interstitial cells. Androgenization on day 10 caused the development of aged interstitial cells on day 14, but adult ovaries were normal. Long lasting postnatal estrogenization (estradiol dipropionate for four postnatal weeks) caused in developing and adult ovaries a lack of interstitial cell development beyond the immature state. Immature interstitial cells were characterized by a small size (less than or equal to 7 mum) and a lack of AR, ER and LHR expression. Because the critical window for steroid-induced sterility coincides with the termination of immune adaptation, we also investigated distribution of mesenchymal cells (Thy-1 mast cells and pericytes. ED1 monocyte-derived cells, CD8 T cells. and cells expressing OX-62 of dendritic cells) in developing and adult ovaries. Developing ovaries of normal, androgenized and estrogenized females were populated by similar mesenchymal cells, regardless of differences in the state of differentiation of interstitial cells. However, mesenchymal cells in adult ovaries showed distinct behavior. In normal adult ovaries. differentiation of mature interstitial cells was accompanied by differentiation of mesenchymal cells. Aged interstitial cells in ovaries of androgenized rats showed precipitous degeneration of resident mesenchymal cells. Immature interstitial cells in ovaries of estrogenized rats showed a lack of differentiation of resident mesenchymal cells. These observations indicate that an alteration of interstitial cell differentiation during immune adaptation toward the aged phenotype results in precipitous degeneration of resident mesenchymal cells and premature aging of ovaries in adult rats. and alteration toward immature phenotype results in a lack of differentiation of mesenchymal cells and permanent immaturity of ovaries in adult females. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.
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