Stimulatory and entraining effect of melatonin on tuberoinfundibular dopaminergic neuron activity and inhibition on prolactin secretion

Journal of Pineal Research

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 219-226

  Chu, Yeh Shiu ^a   Shieh, Kun Ruey ^a   Yuan, Zung Fan ^a   Pan, Jenn Tser ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythm; DOPAC; Melatonin; Prolactin; S 20098; S 20928; TIDA neuron

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; AGOMELATINE; DOPAMINE; ESTROGEN; MELATONIN; MELATONIN DERIVATIVE; N [2 (1 NAPHTHYL)ETHYL]CYCLOBUTANECARBOXAMIDE; PROLACTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG INHIBITION; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PROLACTIN RELEASE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RAT; TUBEROHYPOPHYSEAL TRACT;

EID: 0034018251     PISSN: 07423098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-079X.2000.280404.x     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. ALEXIUK, N.A., J. VRIEND (1991) Effects of afternoon melatonin administration on monoamine accumulation in median eminence and striatum of ovariectomized hamsters receiving pargyline. Neuroendocrinology 54:55-61.
2. ALEXIUK, N.A., M. UDDIN, J. VRIEND (1996) Melatonin increases the in situ activity of tyrosine hydroxylase in the mediobasal hypothalamus of male Syrian hamsters. Life Sci. 59:687-694.
3. BINKLEY, S.A. (1983) Circadian rhythms of pineal functions in rats. Endocr. Rev. 4:255-270.
4. CAJOCHEN, C., K. KRAUCHI, D. MORI, P. GRAW, A. WIRZ-JUSTICE (1997) Melatonin and S-20098 increase REM sleep and wake-up propensity without modifying NREM sleep homeostasis. Am. J. Physiol. 272:R1189-R1196.
5. CARDINALI, D.P., M.R. FAIGON, P. SCACCHI, J. MOGUILEVSKY (1979) Failure of melatonin to increase prolactin levels in ovariectomized rats subjected to superior cervical ganglionectomy or pinealectomy. J. Endocrinol. 82:315-319.
6. DEMAREST, K.T., K.E. MOORE (1980) Accumulation of L-DOPA in the median eminence: An index of tuberoin-fundibular dopaminergic nerve activity. Endocrinology 106:463-468.
7. EBELS, I., M.G.M. BALEMANS (1986) Physiological aspects of pineal functions in mammals. Physiol. Rev. 66:581-604.
8. ESQUIFINO, A.I., A. ARCE, M.A. VILLANUA, D.P. CARDINALI (1997) Twenty-four hour rhythms of serum prolactin, growth hormone and luteinizing hormone levels, and of medial basal hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing hormone levels and dopamine and serotonin metabolism in rats neonatally administered melatonin. J. Pineal Res. 22:52-58.
9. GALA, R.R., W.P. CLARKE, D.J. HAISENLEDER, J.T. PAN, D.R. PIEPER (1984) The influence of blinding, olfactory bulbectomy, and pinealectomy on twenty four-hour plasma prolactin levels in normal and neonatally androgenized female rats. Endocrinology 115:1256-1261.
10. GOLDMAN, B.D., J.M. DARROW (1983) The pineal gland and mammalian photoperiodism. Neuroendocrinology 37:386-396.
11. GOODMAN, R.L. (1978) A quantitative analysis of the physiological role of estradiol and progesterone in the control of tonic and surge secretion of luteinizing hormone in the rat. Endocrinology 102:142-150.
12. JUSZCZAK, M., B. STEMPNIAK (1997) The effect of melatonin on suckling-induced oxytocin and prolactin release in the rat. Brain Res. Bull. 44:253-258.
13. KAMBERI, I.A., R.S. MICAL, J.C. PORTER (1971) Effects of melatonin and serotonin on the release of FSH and prolactin. Endocrinology 88:1288-1293.
14. KARSCH, F.J., E.L. BITTMAN, D.L. FOSTER, R.L. GOODMAN, S.J. LEGAN, J.E. ROBINSON (1984) Neuroendocrine basis of seasonal reproduction. Rec. Prog. Horm. Res. 40:185-232.
15. KRAUCHI, K., C. CAJOCHEN, D. MORI, P. GRAW, A. WIRZ-JUSTICE (1997) Early evening melatonin and S-20098 advance circadian phase and nocturnal regulation of core body temperature. Am. J. Physiol. 272:R1178-R1188.
16. LEADEM, C.A., D.E. BLASK (1982) A comparative study of the effects on the pineal gland on prolactin synthesis, storage and release in male and female blind-anosmic rats. Biol. Reprod. 26:413-421.
17. LIN, J.Y., L.M. MAI, J.T. PAN (1993) Effects of systemic administration of 6-hydroxydopamine, 6-hydroxydopa and 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydroxypyridine (MPTP) on tuberoinfundibular dopaminergic neurons in the rat. Brain Res. 624:126-130.
18. LOOKINGLAND, K.J., H.D. JARRY, K.E. MOORE (1987) The metabolism of dopamine in the median eminence reflects the activity of tuberoinfundibular neurons. Brain Res. 419:303-310.
19. LU , K.H., J. MEITES (1973) Effects of serotonin precursors and melatonin on serum prolactin release in rats. Endocrinology 93:152-155.
20. LUMPKIN, M.D., W.K. SAMSON, S.M. MCCANN (1983) Hypothalamic and pituitary sites of action of oxytocin to alter prolactin secretion in the rat. Endocrinology 112:1711-1717.
21. MAI, L.M., K.R. SHIEH, J.T. PAN (1994) Circadian changes of serum prolactin levels and tuberoinfundibular dopaminergic neuron activities in ovariectomized rats treated with or without estrogen: The role of the suprachiasmatic nuclei. Neuroendocrinology 60:520-526.
22. MASSON-PEVET, M., J. RECIO, H.Y. GUERRERO, E. MOCAER, P. DELAGRANGE, B. GUARDIOLA-LEMAITRE, P. PEVET (1998) Effects of two melatonin analogues, S-20098 and S-20928, on melatonin receptors in the pars tuberalis of the rat. J. Pineal Res. 25:172-176.
23. MCARTHUR, A.J., M.U. GILLETTE, R.A. PROSSER (1991) Melatonin directly resets the rat suprachiasmatic circadian clock in vitro. Brain Res. 565:158-161.
24. MORGAN, W.W., R.J. REITER (1982) Reduced dopamine synthesis and protein levels in the median eminence of blinded anosmic female rats: Relation to the pineal. Prog. Clin. Biol. Res. 92:243-253.
25. PAN, J.T. (1991) Neuroendocrine control of prolactin secretion: The role of the serotonergic system. Chin. J. Physiol. 34:45-64.
26. PAN, J.T. (1996) Neuroendocrine functions of dopamine. In: CNS Neurotransmitters and Neuromodulators: Dopamine, T.W. Stone, ed. CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp. 215-234.
27. PAN, J.T., R.R. GALA (1985) Central nervous system regions involved in the estrogen-induced afternoon prolactin surge. I. Lesion studies. Endocrinology 117:382-387.
28. PHELPS, C.J., M.I. ROMERO, D.L. HURLEY (1995) Role of prolactin in developmental differentiation of hypophysiotropic tuberoinfundibular dopaminergic neurons. Rec. Prog. Horm. Res. 50:471-481.
29. PIEPER, D.R., R.R. GALA (1979a) The effect of light on the prolactin surges of pseudopregnant and ovariectomized, estrogenized rats. Biol. Reprod. 20:727-732.
30. PIEPER, D.R., R.R. GALA (1979b) Lack of an effect of the pineal gland, olfactory bulbectomy and short photoperiod on the afternoon prolactin surge of the ovariectomized, estrogen treated rat. Biol. Reprod. 21:1067-1072.
31. REITER, R.J. (1980) The pineal and its hormones in the control of reproduction in mammals. Endocr. Rev. 1:109-131.
32. REITER, R.J. (1982) Neuroendocrine effects of the pineal gland and of melatonin. In: Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, vol 7, W.F. Ganong, L. Martini, eds. Raven Press, New York, pp. 287-316.
33. REITER, R.J., S. SORRENTINO JR., N.M. ELLISON (1970) Interaction of photic and olfactory stimuli in mediating pineal-induced gonadal regression in adult female rats. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 15:326-333.
34. REPPERT, S.M. (1997) Melatonin receptors: Molecular biology of a new family of G-protein coupled receptors. J. Biol. Rhythms 12:528-531.
35. SHIEH, K.R., J.T. PAN (1996) Sexual differences in the diurnal changes of tuberoinfundibular dopaminergic neuron activity in the rat: Role of cholinergic control. Biol. Reprod. 54:987-992.
36. SHIEH, K.R., Y.S. CHU, J.T. PAN (1997) Circadian change of dopaminergic neuron activity: Effects of constant light and melatonin. Neuroreport 8:2283-2287.
37. SHIEH, K.R., J.T. PAN (1999) Stimulatory role of prolactin on the development of tuberoinfundibular dopaminergic neurones in prepubertal female rats: Studies with cysteamine and somatostatin. J. Neuroendocrinol. (in press).
38. SHYR, S.W., W.R. CROWLEY, C.E. GROSVENOR (1986) Effect of neonatal prolactin deficiency on prepubertul tuberoin-fundibular and tuberohypophyseal dopaminergic neuronal activity. Endocrinology 119:1217-1221.
39. TAMARKIN, L., C.J. BAIRD, O.F.X. ALMEIDA (1985) Melatonin: A coordinating signal for mammalian reproduction? Science 227:714-720.
40. VANECEK, J., A. PAVLIK, H. ILLNEROVA (1987) Hypothalamic melatonin receptor sites revealed by autoradiography. Brain Res. 435:359-362.
41. WEAVER, D.R., S.A. RIVKEES, S.M. REPPERT (1989) Localization and characterization of melatonin receptors in rodent brain by in vitro autoradiography. J. Neurosci. 9:2581-2590.
42. YING, S.W., B. RUSAK, P. DELAGRANGE, E. MOCAER, P. REANRD, B. GUARDIOLA-LAMAITRE (1996) Melatonin analogues as agonists and antagonists in the circadian system and other brain areas. Eur. J. Pharmacol. 296:33-42.
43. YUAN, Z.F., J.T. PAN (1996) Stimulatory effect of a central oxytocin on tuberoinfundibular dopaminergic neuron activity and inhibition on prolactin secretion: Neurochemical and electrophysiological studies. Endocrinology 137:4120-4125.