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Prolactin Released in vitro from the Pituitary of Lactating, Pregnant, and Steroid-Treated Female or Male Rats Stimulates Prolactin Secretion from Pituitary Lactotropes of Male Rats
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Journal Article
Prolactin Released in vitro from the Pituitary of Lactating, Pregnant, and Steroid-Treated Female or Male Rats Stimulates Prolactin Secretion from Pituitary Lactotropes of Male Rats
2010
Overview
We have previously shown that soluble factor(s) in conditioned media (CM) from the central and peripheral regions of the anterior pituitary (AP) gland of lactating rats promoted the in vitro dose-related release of prolactin (PRL) from pituitary glands of male rats. In the present experiments we sought to determine whether CM from rats in different physiological states provoked similar effects (like those of lactating rats), and the nature of the factors, whether 23K PRL or other variants of the hormone, were responsible for these effects. Stimulatory effects were induced by CM from pregnant females and steroid-treated castrated males or females, but not from untreated castrated rats, intact males, or by a PRL standard. More potent effects occurred with CM from APs of early- than from mid- or late-lactating rats, and from rats unsuckled for 8 or 16 h than from those unsuckled for 32 h. With respect to the nature of factor(s) responsible for these effects, immunoprecipitation of PRL from the CM of lactating females and of steroid-treated, castrated males eliminated, whereas dephosphorylation or deglycosylation of CM of lactating rats greatly increased its effects upon PRL release. Also, electrophoretic analysis and Western blotting of the CM proteins under native and denaturing conditions revealed a variety of PRL variants, ranging from 14 to <90 kDa, in CM from lactating rats, and the main effects on PRL release were provoked by the 23- to 46-kDa PRL variants. These results indicate that specific effects upon male rat lactotropes may be exerted by PRL variants released from APs of lactating and non-lactating rats.
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Karger,S. Karger AG
