期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 41, 期 3, 页码 474-488出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1062-20.2020
关键词
fertility; HPA axis; puberty; reproduction; RFRP; stress
资金
- New Zealand Marsden Fund
- Health Research Council of New Zealand
RFRP neurons play a crucial role in regulating fertility and stress responses, with their activation delaying puberty onset and reproductive cycle progression, while ablation or silencing may attenuate or eliminate stress-induced reproductive suppression. Furthermore, RFRP neuronal activation stimulates glucocorticoid secretion, indicating a feedback loop linking stress and reproductive axes.
RF-amide related peptide 3 (RFRP-3) is a neuropeptide thought to inhibit central regulation of fertility. We investigated whether alterations in RFRP neuronal activity led to changes in puberty onset, fertility, and stress responses, including stress and glucocorticoid-induced suppression of pulsatile luteinizing hormone secretion. We first validated a novel RFRP-Cre mouse line, which we then used in combination with Cre-dependent neuronal ablation and DREADD technology to selectively ablate, stimulate, and inhibit RFRP neurons to interrogate their physiological roles in the regulation of fertility and stress responses. Chronic RFRP neuronal activation delayed male puberty onset and female reproductive cycle progression, but RFRP-activated and ablated mice exhibited apparently normal fertility. When subjected to either restraint-or glucocorticoidinduced stress paradigms. However, we observed a critical sex-specific role for RFRP neurons in mediating acute and chronic stress-induced reproductive suppression. Female mice exhibiting RFRP neuron ablation or silencing did not exhibit the stress-induced suppression in pulsatile luteinizing hormone secretion observed in control mice. Furthermore, RFRP neuronal activation markedly stimulated glucocorticoid secretion, demonstrating a feedback loop whereby stressful stimuli activate RFRP neurons, which in turn further activate the stress axis. These data provide evidence for a neuronal link between the stress and reproductive axes.
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