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Endocrinology, Vol 135, 1409-1414, Copyright © 1994 by Endocrine Society
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SK Mani, JD Blaustein, JM Allen, SW Law, BW O'Malley and JH Clark
Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030.
To test further the idea that sexual behavior in rodents is mediated via the progesterone receptor (PR) in the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus, antisense and sense oligonucleotides to progesterone receptor were administered intracerebroventricularly into the third cerebral ventricle of ovariectomized estrogen-primed animals. Progesterone-facilitated sexual behavior was inhibited in animals treated with antisense oligonucleotides, with proceptive and receptive responses being minimal or completely suppressed. Sexual behavior was not altered by control sense oligonucleotides. In vitro binding assays of the cytosol progesterone receptors demonstrated a 52.2% reduction of PRs in the hypothalamus of animals that received antisense oligonucleotides, suggesting a reduction in PR synthesis. These data suggest that a threshold level of estrogen-induced hypothalamic PR is critical in the regulation of progesterone-facilitated sexual behavior in female rats.
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