Cytochrome oxidase activity in the preoptic area correlates with differences in sexual behavior of intact and castrated male leopard geckos (Eublepharis macularius)

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 857-862

  Sakata, J T ^a,b   Crews, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CASTRATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EJACULATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FELIDAE; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CASTRATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; LIZARDS; MALE; PREOPTIC AREA; REACTION TIME; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 3242749874     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.118.4.857     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Balthazart, J., Castagna, C., & Ball, G. F. (1997). Differential effects of D1 and D2 dopamine-receptor agonists and antagonists on appetitive and consummatory aspects of male sexual behavior in Japanese quail. Physiology & Behavior, 62, 571-580.
2. Balthazart, J., Stamatakis, A., Bacola, S., Absil, P., & Dermon, C. R. (2001). Effects of lesions of the medial preoptic nucleus on the testosterone-induced metabolic changes in specific brain areas in male quail. Neuroscience, 108, 447-466.
3. Clark, M. M., & Galef, B. G., Jr. (1995). Prenatal influences on reproductive life history strategies. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 10, 151-153.
4. Coomber, P., Crews, D., & Gonzalez-Lima, F. (1997). Independent effects of incubation temperature and gonadal sex on the volume and metabolic capacity of brain nuclei in the leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius), a lizard with temperature-dependent sex determination. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 380, 409-421.
5. Crews, D., Coomber, P., Baldwin, R., Azad, N., & Gonzalez-Lima, F. (1996). Brain organization in a reptile lacking sex chromosomes: Effects of gonadectomy and exogenous testosterone. Hormones & Behavior, 30, 474-486.
6. Crews, D., Coomber, P., & Gonzalez-Lima, F. (1997). Effects of age and sociosexual experience on the morphology and metabolic capacity of brain nuclei in the leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius), a lizard with temperature-dependent sex determination. Brain Research, 758, 169-179.
7. Crews, D., Sakata, J., & Rhen, T. (1998). Developmental effects on intersexual and intrasexual variation in growth and reproduction in a lizard with temperature-dependent sex determination. Journal of Comparative Biochemistry & Physiology C, 119, 229-241.
8. Crews, D., & Silver, R. (1985). Reproductive physiology and behavior interactions in nonmammalian vertebrates. In N. Adler, D. Pfaff, & R. W. Goy (Eds.), Handbook of behavioral neurobiology (Vol. 7, pp. 101-185). New York: Plenum Press.
9. Dominguez, J., Riolo, J. V., Xu, Z., & Hull, E. M. (2001). Regulation by the medial amygdala of copulation and medial preoptic dopamine release. Journal of Neuroscience, 21, 349-355.
10. Du, J., & Hull, E. M. (1999). Effects of testosterone on neuronal nitric oxide synthase and tyrosine hydroxylase. Brain Research, 836, 90-98.
11. Gonzalez-Lima, F. (1992). Brain imaging of auditory learning functions in rats: Studies with fluorodeoxyglucose autoradiography and cytochrome oxidase histochemistry. In F. Gonzalez-Lima (Ed.), Advances in metabolic mapping techniques for brain imaging of behavioral and learning functions (pp. 39-109). Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
12. Gonzalez-Lima, F., & Sadile, A. G. (2000). Network operations revealed by brain metabolic mapping in a genetic model of hyperactivity and attention deficit: The Naples high- and low-excitability rats. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 24, 157-160.
13. Guennoun, R., Fiddes, R. J., Gouezou, M., Lombes, M., & Baulieu, E. E. (1995). A key enzyme in the biosynthesis of neurosteroids, 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase/Δ5-Δ4-isomerase (3β-HSD), is expressed in rat brain. Molecular Brain Research, 30, 287-300.
14. +-ATPase activity in male rats. Neuroscience Letters, 78, 97-100.
15. Hoffman, N. W., Wuarin, J. P., & Dudek, F. E. (1994). Whole-cell recordings of spontaneous synaptic currents in medial preoptic neurons from rat hypothalamic slices: Mediation by amino acid neurotransmitters. Brain Research, 660, 349-352.
16. Holloway, C. C., & Clayton, D. E. (2001). Estrogen synthesis in the male brain triggers development of the avian song control pathway in vitro. Nature Neuroscience, 4, 170-175.
17. Hull, E. M., Meisel, R. L., & Sachs, B. D. (2002). Male sexual behavior. In D. W. Pfaff, A. P. Arnold, A. M. Etgen, S. E. Fahrbach, & R. T. Rubin (Eds.), Hormones, brain and behavior (Vol. 1, pp. 3-137). Amsterdam: Academic Press.
18. Karlsson, U., Sundgren, A. K., Näsström, J., & Johansson, S. (1997). Glutamate-evoked currents in acutely dissociated neurons from the rat medial preoptic nucleus. Brain Research, 759, 270-276.
19. Kocsis, K., Kiss, J., Csáki, À., & Halász, B. (2003). Location of putative glutamatergic neurons projecting to the medial preoptic area of the rat hypothalamus. Brain Research Bulletin, 61, 459-468.
20. Krohmer, R. W., Bieganski, G. J., Baleckaitis, D. D., Harada, N., & Balthazart, J. (2001). Distribution of aromatase immunoreactivity in the forebrain of red-sided garter snakes at the beginning of the winter dormancy. Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy, 23, 59-71.
21. Larsson, K. (1978). Experiential factors in the development of sexual behaviour. In J. B. Hutchinson (Ed.), Biological determinants of sexual behaviour (pp. 55-86). Chichester, England: Wiley.
22. Meisel, R. L., & Sachs, B. D. (1994). The physiology of male sexual behavior. In E. Knobil & J. D. Neill (Eds.), The physiology of reproduction (pp. 3-105). New York: Raven Press, Ltd.
23. Mensah-Nyagan, A. G., Beaujean, D., Luu-The, V., Pelletier, G., & Vaudry, H. (2001). Anatomical and biochemical evidence for the synthesis of unconjugated and sulfated neurosteroids in amphibians. Brain Research Reviews, 37, 13-24.
24. Nie, F., & Wong-Riley, M. T. (1995). Double labeling of GABA and cytochrome oxidase in the macaque visual cortex: Quantitative EM analysis. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 356, 115-131.
25. Nie, F., & Wong-Riley, M. T. (1996). Differential glutamatergic innervation in cytochrome oxidase-rich and -poor regions of the macaque striate cortex: Quantitative EM analysis of neurons and neuropil. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 369, 571-590.
26. Poremba, A., Jones, D., & Gonzalez-Lima, F. (1998). Classical conditioning modifies cytochrome oxidase activity in the auditory system. European Journal of Neuroscience, 10, 3035-3043.
27. Rhen, T., & Crews, D. (1999). Embryonic temperature and gonadal sex organize male-typical sexual and aggressive behavior in a lizard with temperature-dependent sex determination. Endocrinology, 140, 4501-4508.
28. Ryan, B. C., & Vandenbergh, J. G. (2002). Intrauterine position effects. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 26, 665-678.
29. Sakata, J. T., Gonzalez-Lima, F., Gupta, A., & Crews, D. (2002). Repeated interactions with females elevates metabolic capacity in limbic brain areas. Brain Research, 936, 27-37.
30. Sakata, J. T., Gupta, A., Chuang, C.-P., & Crews, D. (2002). Social experience alters territorial and reproductive behaviours in male leopard geckos, Eublepharis macularius. Animal Behaviour, 63, 487-493.
31. Sakata, J. T., Gupta, A., & Crews, D. (2001). Animal models of experiential effects on neural metabolism: Plasticity in the limbic system. In R. J. Handa, S. Hayashi, E. Terasawa, & M. Kawata (Eds.), Neuroplasticity, development and steroid hormone action (pp. 257-271). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
32. Sakata, J. T., Gupta, A., Gonzalez-Lima, F., & Crews, D. (2002). Heterosexual experience increases the retention of courtship behavior following castration and elevates brain metabolism in male whiptail lizards, Cnemidophorus inornatus. Hormones and Behavior, 42, 263-273.
33. SAS Institute. (1995). JMP user's guide, version 3.1. Cary, NC: Author.
34. Shumake, J., Edwards, E., & Gonzalez-Lima, F. (2001). Hypermetabolism of paraventricular hypothalamus in the congenitally helpless rat. Neuroscience Letters, 311, 45-48.
35. Shumake, J., Edwards, E., & Gonzalez-Lima, F. (2002). Dissociation of septohippocampal metabolism in the congenitally helpless rat. Neuroscience, 114, 373-377.
36. Shumake, J., Edwards, E., & Gonzalez-Lima, F. (2003). Opposite metabolic changes in the habenula and ventral tegmental areas of a genetic model of helpless behavior. Brain Research, 963, 274-281.
37. Shumake, J., Poremba, A., Edwards, E., & Gonzalez-Lima, F. (2000). Congenital helpless rats as a genetic model for cortex metabolism in depression. NeuroReport, 11, 3793-3798.
38. Sinchak, K., Roselli, C. E., & Clemens, L. G. (1996). Levels of serum steroids, aromatase activity, and estrogen receptors in preoptic area, hypothalamus, and amygdala of B6D2F1 male house mice that differ in the display of copulatory behavior after castration. Behavioral Neuroscience, 110, 593-602.
39. Soma, K. K., Bindra, R. K., Gee, J., Wingfield, J. C., & Schlinger, B. A. (1999). Androgen-metabolizing enzymes show region-specific changes across the breeding season in the brain of a wild songbird. Journal of Neurobiology, 41, 176-188.
40. Soma, K. K., Schlinger, B. A., Wingfield, J. C., & Saldanha, C. J. (2003). Brain aromatase, 5α-reductase, and 5β-reductase change seasonally in wild male song sparrows: Relationship to aggressive and sexual behavior. Journal of Neurobiology, 56, 209-221.
41. Soma, K. K., & Wingfield, J. C. (2001). Dehydroepiandrosterone in a songbird plasma: Seasonal regulation and relationship to territorial aggression. General & Comparative Endocrinology, 123, 144-155.
42. Soma, K. K., Wissman, A. M., Brenowitz, E. A., & Wingfield, J. C. (2002). Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) increases territorial song and the size of an associated brain region in a male songbird. Hormones and Behavior, 41, 203-212.
43. Stevens, I. (1996). Applied multivariate statistics for the social sciences (3rd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
44. 4-isomerase in different regions of the avian brain. Brain Research, 818, 536-542.
45. Wade, J. (1997). Androgen metabolism in the brain of the green anole lizard (Anolis carolinensis). General & Comparative Endocrinology, 106, 127-137.
46. Wong-Riley, M. T. T. (1989). Cytochrome oxidase: An endogenous metabolic marker for neuronal activity. Trends in Neurosciences, 12, 94-101.
47. Wong-Riley, M. T. T., Nie, F., Hevner, R. F., & Liu, S. (1998). Brain cytochrome oxidase: Functional significance and biogenomic regulation in the CNS. In F. Gonzalez-Lima (Ed.), Cytochrome oxidase in neuronal metabolism and Alzheimer's disease (pp. 1-53). New York: Plenum Press.
48. Zhang, C., & Wong-Riley, M. (1999). Expression and regulation of NMDA receptor subunit R1 and nitric oxide synthase in cortical neuronal cultures: Correlation with cytochrome oxidase. Journal of Neurocytology, 28, 525-539.