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BRAIN RESEARCH
卷 997, 期 1, 页码 89-96出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2003.10.039
关键词
estrogen receptor; hypothalamus; paraventricular nucleus; immunocytochemistry; mouse
Previous studies have shown that estrogen receptor beta (ERbeta) is the predominant estrogen receptor in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of mouse, mediating estrogen regulation of the neuroendocrine activities of the PVN, but the exact roles that ERbeta plays in the PVN remain unclear. In this study, we used immunocytochemistry to investigate the expression of ERbeta in the maternal PVN of mice during pregnancy (pregnant days 8, 10, 12, 15 and 18), lactation (postpartum days 1, 4 and 8) as well as in the PVN of the females from postnatal days 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 15, 30 and 70. We found out that ERbeta was predominantly localized in the magnocellular divisions of PVN. In the pregnant female brain, generally, the ERbeta was lower than that of the postnatal development, the lowest level was found at gestational days 10-12; then from gestational day 18 to postpartum day 1, it increased to higher levels, followed by a decrease from postpartum day 4. During the postnatal development, the highest level of ERbeta was found at early postnatal days (before postnatal day 15), thereafter, it decreased to a lower level. The above results indicate that circulating sex steroids may differentially regulate the expression of ERbeta in the PVN of mice. It also suggests that this receptor may play important roles in the regulation of parturition and in the development, food intake and body weight increases of the newborns by acting on the neuropeptides, which were also detected in the PVN. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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