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JOURNAL OF NEUROBIOLOGY
卷 58, 期 4, 页码 493-502出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/neu.10290
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neuroactive steroids; progesterone metabolites; subependymal layer; cell proliferation; glial tubes
Indirect evidence suggests that in the subependymal layer (SEL) steroid hormones could be partially involved in the modulation of neurogenesis, but little or nothing is known about a direct effect of these molecules on this cellular system. The possible effect of progesterone (P) and/or its neuroactive metabolites, dihydroprogesterone (DHP) and tetrahydroprogesterone (THP), on the two cellular components of the SEL (i.e., proliferating/migrating neuroblasts and protoplasmic astrocytes) has been analyzed in adult male rat. P, DHP, and THP were administered by intraventricular injections and after 2 days the SEL was analyzed by immunolhistochemistry by using anti-glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and anti-vimentin antibodies, to label the glial compartment, anti-polysialylated form of the neural cell adhesion molecule (PSA-NCAM), anti-Stathmin, and anti-beta III Tubulin antibodies to label the migrating neuroblasts. Furthermore, the newly formed cells were identified by using intraventricular injections of 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU) detected immunohistochemically. Our results demonstrate that DHP and THP treatments drastically decrease the number of BrdU-labeled cells within the SEL. THP, DHP, and to a lesser extent P, administrations also induce molecular and structural modifications of the SEL glial compartment. On the whole, the present results indicate that neuroactive derivatives of P (i.e., DHP and THP) exert direct effects on adult neurogenesis, strongly affecting both neuroblasts and astrocytes of the SEL. (C) 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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