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Endocrinology Vol. 140, No. 3 1423-1431
Copyright © 1999 by The Endocrine Society

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Autocrine Regulation of Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Secretion in Cultured Hypothalamic Neurons

Lazar Z. Krsmanovic, Antonio J. Martinez-Fuentes, Krishan K. Arora, Nadia Mores, Carlos E. Navarro, Hao-Chia Chen, Stanko S. Stojilkovic and Kevin J. Catt

Endocrinology and Reproduction Research Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Kevin J. Catt, M.D., Ph.D., Endocrinology and Reproduction Research Branch, Building 49, Room 6A-36, NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892. E-mail: catt{at}helix.nih.gov

Episodic hormone secretion is a characteristic feature of the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal system, in which the profile of gonadotropin release from pituitary gonadotrophs reflects the pulsatile secretory activity of GnRH-producing neurons in the hypothalamus. Pulsatile release of GnRH is also evident in vitro during perifusion of immortalized GnRH neurons (GT1–7 cells) and cultured fetal hypothalamic cells, which continue to produce bioactive GnRH for up to 2 months. Such cultures, as well as hypothalamic tissue from adult rats, express GnRH receptors as evidenced by the presence of high-affinity GnRH binding sites and GnRH receptor transcripts. Furthermore, individual GnRH neurons coexpress GnRH and GnRH receptors as revealed by double immunostaining of hypothalamic cultures. In static cultures of hypothalamic neurons and GT1–7 cells, treatment with the GnRH receptor antagonist, [D-pGlu1, D-Phe2, D-Trp3,6]GnRH caused a prominent increase in GnRH release. In perifused hypothalamic cells and GT1–7 cells, treatment with the GnRH receptor agonist, des-Gly10-[D-Ala6]GnRH N-ethylamide, reduced the frequency and increased the amplitude of pulsatile GnRH release, as previously observed in GT1–7 cells. In contrast, exposure to the GnRH antagonist analogs abolished pulsatile secretion and caused a sustained and progressive increase in GnRH release. These findings have demonstrated that GnRH receptors are expressed in hypothalamic GnRH neurons, and that receptor activation is required for pulsatile GnRH release in vitro. The effects of GnRH agonist and antagonist analogs on neuropeptide release are consistent with the operation of an ultrashort-loop autocrine feedback mechanism that exerts both positive and negative actions that are necessary for the integrated control of GnRH secretion from the hypothalamus.




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