Cellular and functional interactions between gonadotrophs and lactotrophs in pituitary cell cultures

Medical Electron Microscopy

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 231-240

  De Paul, A L ^a   Bonaterra, M ^a   Aoki, A ^a   Torres, A I ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Angiotensin II; GnRH; Gonadotroph cells; Lactotroph cells; Prolactin

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; HYPOTHALAMUS; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; PROLACTIN SECRETING CELL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SECRETORY GRANULE;

ANGIOTENSIN II; ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PITUITARY GLAND; PROLACTIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0034438802     PISSN: 09184287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007950000023     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Pituitary basophils from immature male and female reta: Distribution of gonadotrophs and thyrotrophs as studied by unit gravity sedimentation
2. Cell-to-cell communication in peptide target cells of anterior pituitary
3. Paracrine interactions in the anterior pituitary
4. Neuropeptides of anterior pituitary origin: Autocrine or paracrine functions?
5. Evidence of gonadotropin-releasing hormone mRNA in the rat anterior pituitary
6. Thyrotropin-releasing hormone gene expression by anterior pituitary cells in long-term cultures is influenced by the culture conditions and cell-to-cell interactions
7. Muscarinic regulation of basal versus thyrotropin-releasing hormone-induced prolactin secretion in rat anterior pituitary cells
8. Neuroendocrine regulation of prolactin release
9. Neuroendocrine control of prolactin secretion
10. Paracrine cell to cell interactions determine the effects of adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide (PACAP) on in vitro prolactin release from rat pituitay cells
11. Paracrine communication in the anterior pituitary as studied in reaggregate cell cultures
12. Autorregulation of rat prolactin gene in lactotrophs
13. Intercellular communication within the anterior pituitary influencing the secretion of hypophysial hormones
14. Evidence for paracrine interaction between gonadotrophs and lactotrophs in pituitary cell aggregates
15. Evidence that angiotensin II is a paracrine agent mediating gonadotropin-releasing hormone-stimulated inositol phosphate production and prolactin secretion in the rat
16. Paracrine control of anterior pituitary hormone secretion
17. The paracrine role of angiotensin in gonadotrophin-releasing hormone-stimulated prolactin release in rats
18. In vitro evidence that LHRH stimulates the recruitment of prolactin mRNA-expressing cells during the postnatal period in the rat
19. 2+ mobilization and prolactin release in normal and hyperplastic pituitary cells
20. Ontogeny of angiotensin II-induced prolactin release in vivo and in vitro in female and male rats
21. Expression of angiotensin II subtypes AT(1A) and AT(1B) in purified fractions of dispersed rat pituitary cells
22. Identification of endocrine cell population expressing the AT1B subtype of angiotensin II receptors in the anterior pituitary
23. Different behavior of lactotroph cells in response to angiotensin II and thyrotropin-releasing hormone
24. Heterogeneity of pituitary lactotrophs: Immunocytochemical identification of functional subtypes
25. Correlation of thyrotropin secretion with morphometric data of secretory granules from individual thyrotropes: An ultrastructural study on rat cells identified by reverse hemolytic plaque assay
26. Angiotensinogen, prorenin, and renin are co-localized in the secretory granules of all glandular cells of the rat anterior pituitary: An immunoultrastructural study
27. Angiotensin "antipeptide": (-) Messenger RNA complementary to human angiotensin II (+) messenger RNA encodes an angiotensin receptor antagonist
28. Prolactin subpopulations separated on discontinuous Percoll gradient: An immunocytochemical, biochemical and physiological characterization
29. Effect of angiotensin II on the proliferation of mammotrophs from the adult rat anterior pituitary in culture
30. Modification of the protein-A gold immunocytochemical technique for the enhancement of this efficiency
31. Improvement of prolactin immuno-labelling in osmium-fixed acrylic-embedded pituitary gland
32. Radioimmunoassay for rat prolactin
33. Linear Percoll gradient centrifugation of rat anterior pituitary cells: A simple method for prolactin cell enrichment
34. Application of a Percoll density gradient to separate and enrich porcine pituitary cell types
35. A novel method for rapid enrichment of lactotrophs from dispersed anterior pituitary cells of the rat
36. Blood, pituitary and brain renin-angiotensin system and regulation of secretion of anterior pituitay gland
37. Origin of the angiotensin II secreted by cells
38. Role of classic and peptide neuromediators in the neuroendocrine regulation of luteinizing hormone and PRL
39. Angiotensin II AT1A receptor mRNA expression in induced by estrogen-progesterone in dopaminergic neurons of the female rat arcuate nucleus
40. Angiotensinergic neurons physiologically inhibit prolactin, growth, and thyroid-stimulating hormone, but not adrenocorticotropic hormone, release in ovariectomized rats
41. Angiotensin II is retained in gonadotrophs of pituitary cell aggregates cultured in serum-free medium but does not mimic the effect of exogenous angiotensins and luteinizing-hormone-releasing hormone on growth hormone release
42. Biocative peptides in anterior pituitary cells
43. In vitro immunoneutralization of a cleaved prolactin variant: Evidence for a local paracrine action of cleaved prolactin in the development of gonadotrophs and thyrotrophs in rat pituitary
44. Involvement of nitric oxide in the interferon-gamma-induced inhibition of growth hormone and prolactin secretion in anterior pituitary cell cultures
45. The suckling stimulus increases the responsiveness of mammotropes located exclusively within the central region of the adenohypophysis