Changes of prolactin regulatory mechanisms in aging: 24-h rhythms of serum prolactin and median eminence and adenohypophysial concentration of dopamine, serotonin, (γ-aminobutyric acid, taurine and somatostatin in young and aged rats

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-52

  Esquifino, A I ^a   Cano, P ^a   Jimenez, V ^a   Reyes Toso, C F ^b   Cardinali, D P ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Adenohypophysis; Aging; Amino acids; Circadian rhythms; Dopamine; Median eminence; Prolactin; Serotonin; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DOPAMINE; PROLACTIN; SEROTONIN; SOMATOSTATIN; TAURINE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SENESCENCE; TIME;

EID: 0346687675     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2003.08.004     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Aliberti G., Pulignano I., Schiappoli A., Cigognetti L., Tritapepe L., Proietta M. Age related prolactin secretion in men after fentanyl anaesthesia. Arch. Gerontol. Geriatr. 35:2002;1-8.
2. Amoroso S., Di Renzo G.F., Maurano F., Maida P., Taglialatela M., Annunziato L. Lack of evidence for an impairment of tuberoinfundibolar dopaminergic neurons in aged male rats of the Sprague-Dawley strain. Exp. Aging Res. 13:1987;85-87.
3. Arita J., Reymond M.J., Porter J.C. Evidence for alteration in the processing of dopamine in the anterior pituitary gland of aged rats: receptors and intracellular compartmentalization of dopamine. Endocrinology. 114:1984;974-979.
4. Arnetz B.B., Lahnborg G., Eneroth P., Thunell S. Age-related differences in the serum prolactin response during standardized surgery. Life Sci. 35:1984;2675-2680.
5. Ben-Jonathan N., Hnasko R. Dopamine as a prolactin (PRL) inhibitor. Endocr. Rev. 22:2001;724-763.
6. Bhaskaran D., Radha E. Monoamine levels and monoamine oxidase activity in different regions of rat brain as a function of age. Mech. Ageing Dev. 23:1983;151-160.
7. Blackman M.R., Kowatch M.A., Wehmann R.E., Harman S.M. Basal serum prolactin levels and prolactin responses to constant infusions of thyrotropin releasing hormone in healthy aging men. J. Gerontol. 41:1986;699-705.
8. Cano P., Cardinali D.P., Castrillon P., Reyes Toso C., Esquifino A.I. Age-dependent changes in 24-h rhythms of catecholamine content and turnover in hypothalamus, corpus striatum and pituitary gland of rats injected with Freund's adjuvant. BMC Physiology. 1:2001;14.
9. Carfagna N., Trunzo F., Moretti A. Brain catecholamine content and turnover in aging rats. Exp. Gerontol. 20:1985;265-269.
10. Castrillón P., Cardinali D.P., Pazo D., Cutrera R.A., Esquifino A.I. Effect of superior cervical ganglionectomy on 24-h variations in hormone secretion from anterior hypophysis and in hypothalamic monoamine turnover, during the preclinical phase of Freund's adjuvant arthritis in rats. J. Neuroendocrinol. 13:2001;288-295.
11. Console G.M., Gomez Dumm C.L., Brown O.A., Ferese C., Goya R.G. Sexual dimorphism in the age changes of the pituitary lactotrophs in rats. Mech. Ageing Dev. 95:1997;157-166.
12. Copinschi G., Spiegel K., Leproult R., Van Cauter E. Pathophysiology of human circadian rhythms. Novartis Found Symp. 227:2000;143-157.
13. Davidson J.M., Chen J.J., Crapo L., Gray G.D., Greenleaf W.J., Catania J.A. Hormonal changes and sexual function in aging men. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 57:1983;71-77.
14. Demarest K.T., Riegle G.D., Moore K.E. Characteristics of dopaminergic neurons in the aged male rat. Neuroendocrinology. 31:1980;222-227.
15. Demarest K.T., Moore K.E., Riegle G.D. Responsiveness of tuberoinfundibular dopamine neurons in the aged female rat to the stimulatory actions of prolactin. Neuroendocrinology. 45:1987;227-232.
16. Esquifino A.I., Cano P., Chacon F., Reyes Toso C.F., Cardinali D.P. Effect of aging on 24-h changes in dopamine and serotonin turnover, and amino acid and somatostatin content, of rat corpus striatum. NeuroSignals. 11:2002;336-344.
17. Freeman M.E., Kanyicska B., Lerant A., Nagy G. Prolactin: structure, function, and regulation of secretion. Physiol. Rev. 80:2000;1523-1631.
18. Fuh V.L., Bach M.A. Growth hormone secretagogues: mechanism of action and use in aging. Growth Horm IGF Res. 8:1998;13-20.
19. Garcia Bonacho M., Esquifino A.I., Castrillon P., Reyes Toso C., Cardinali D.P. Age-dependent effect of Freund's adjuvant on 24-h rhythms in plasma prolactin, growth hormone, thyrotropin, insulin, follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone and testosterone in rats. Life Sci. 66:1999;1969-1977.
20. Garcia Bonacho M., Cardinali D.P., Castrillon P., Cutrera R.A., Esquifino A.I. Aging-induced changes in 24-h rhythms of mitogenic responses, lymphocyte subset populations and neurotransmitter and amino acid content in rat submaxillary lymph nodes during Freund's adjuvant arthritis. Exp. Gerontol. 36:2001;267-282.
21. Giusti M., Marini G., Sessarego P., Peluffo F., Valenti S., Caratti C., Giordano G. Effect of cholinergic tone on growth hormone-releasing hormone-induced secretion of growth hormone in normal aging. Aging (Milano). 4:1992;231-237.
22. Govoni S., Pasinetti G., Trabucchi M., Inzoli M.R., Rozzini R. Plasma prolactin concentrations in a large population of healthy old people. Br. Med. J. (Clin. Res. Ed.). 287:1983;1107.
23. Gudelsky G., Apud J., Masotto C., Locatelli V., Cocchi D., Racagni G., Muller E. Ethanolamine-O-sulfate enhances g-aminobutync acid secretion into hypophyseal portal blood and lowers serum prolactin concentrations. Neuroendocrinology. 37:1983;397-399.
24. Hossdorf T., Wagner H. Secretion of prolactin in healthy men and women of different age. Aktuelle Gerontol. 10:1980;119-126.
25. Kiss J., Halasz B. Synaptic connections between serotonergic axon terminals and tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive neurons in the arcuate nucleus of the rat hypothalamus. A combination of electron microscopic autoradiography and immunocytochemistry. Brain Res. 364:1986;284-294.
26. Lee T.Y., Pan J.T. Involvement of central GABAergic neurons in basal and diurnal changes of tuberoinfundibular dopaminergic neuronal activity and prolactin secretion. Life Sci. 68:2001;1965-1975.
27. Login I.S. Direct stimulation of pituitary prolactin release by glutamate. Life Sci. 47:1990;2269-2275.
28. MohanKumar P.S., MohanKumar S.M., Quadri S.K., Voogt J.L. Effects of chronic bromocriptine treatment on tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) mRNA expression, TH activity and median eminence dopamine concentrations in ageing rats. J. Neuroendocrinol. 13:2001;261-269.
29. Moore K.E. Interactions between prolactin and dopaminergic neurons. Biol. Reprod. 36:1987;47-58.
30. Ondo J.G., Dom R. The arcuate nucleus: a site for gamma-aminobutyric acid regulation of prolactin secretion. Brain Res. 381:1986;43-48.
31. Patel Y.C., Srikant C.B. Somatostatin mediation of adenohypophyseal secretion. Ann. Rev. Physiol. 48:1986;551-567.
32. Rehman H.U., Masson E.A. Neuroendocrinology of ageing. Age Ageing. 30:2001;279-287.
33. Riegle G.D., Meites J. Effect of aging on LH and prolactin after LHRH, L-DOPA, methyl-dopa, and stress in male rats. Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. 151:1976;507-511.
34. Rivera J.L., Lal S., Ettigi P., Hontela S., Muller H.F., Friesen H.G. Effect of acute and chronic neuroleptic therapy on serum prolactin levels in men and women of different age groups. Clin. Endocrinol. (Oxf). 5:1976;273-282.
35. Rolandi E., Magnani G., Sannia A., Barreca T. Evaluation of Prl secretion in elderly subjects. Acta Endocrinol. (Copenh). 100:1982;351-357.
36. Sawin C.T., Carlson H.E., Geller A., Castelli W.P., Bacharach P. Serum prolactin and aging: basal values and changes with estrogen use and hypothyroidism. J. Gerontol. 44:1989;M131-M135.
37. Schimchowitsch S., Tappaz M.L., Klein M.J., Stoeckel M.E. Systemic presence of GABA-irnmunoreactivity in the tubero-infundibular and tubero-hypophyseal dopaminergic axonal systems: an ultrastructural immunogold study on several mammals. Exp. Brain Res. 83:1991;575-586.
38. Shieh K.R., Pan J.T. Sexual differences in the diurnal changes of tuberoinfundibular dopaminergic neuron activity in the rat: role of cholinergic control. Biol. Reprod. 54:1996;987-992.
39. Simpkins J.W., Millard W.J. Influence of age on neurotransmitter function. Endocrinol. Metab. Clin. North Am. 16:1987;893-917.
40. Simpkins J.W., Mueller G.P., Huang H.H., Meites J. Evidence for depressed catecholamine and enhanced serotonin metabolism in aging male rats: possible relation to gonadotropin secretion. Endocrinology. 100:1977;1672-1678.
41. Steger R.W., De Paolo L.V., Shepherd A.M. Effects of advancing age on hypothalamic neurotransmitter content and on basal and norepinephrine- stimulated LHRH release. Neurobiol. Aging. 6:1985;113-116.
42. Steinbusch H.W.M. Distribution of serotonin-immunoreactivity in the central nervous system of the rat-cell bodies and terminals. Neuroscience. 6:1981;557-618.
43. Tamarit Rodriguez J., Vara E., Tamarit J. Antigenic specificity of a new and potent somatostatin antiserum. Horm. Metabol. Res. 17:1985;623-625.
44. Thornton P., Sonntag W. Growth hormone, insulin-like growth factor-1, and the aging brain. Hof P.R., Mobbs C.V. Functional Neurobiology of Aging. 2001;907-928 Academic Press, San Diego.
45. Vekemans M., Robyn C. Influence of age on serum prolactin levels in women and men. Br. Med. J. 4:1975;738-739.
46. Vincent S.R., Hokfelt T., Wu J.Y. GABA neuron systems in hypothalamus and the pituitary gland. Neuroendocrinology. 34:1982;117-125.
47. Wasada T. The changes in serum levels of FSH, LH, LHalpha and beta-subunit, and prolactin and their responses to synthetic LH-RH and TRH in normal subjects with aging. Fukuoka Igaku Zasshi. 69:1978;506-518.
48. Wennbo H., Kindblom J., Isaksson O., Tornell J. Transgenic mice overexpressing the prolactin gene develop dramatic enlargement of the prostate gland. Endocrinology. 138:1997;4410-4415.
49. Wise P.M., Smith M.J., Dubal D.B., Wilson M.E., Rau S.W., Cashion A.B., Bottner M., Rosewell K.L. Neuroendocrine modulation and repercussions of female reproductive aging. Recent Prog. Horm. Res. 57:2002;235-256.
50. Yamaji T., Shimamoto K., Ishibashi M., Kosaka K., Orimo H. Effect of age and sex on circulating and pituitary prolactin levels in human. Acta Endocrinol. (Copenh). 83:1976;711-719.