Sex steroids are involved in the regulation of gonadotropin-releasing hormone and dopamine D2 receptors in female tilapia pituitary

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 642-650

  Levavi Sivan, Berta ^a   Biran, Jakob ^a   Fireman, Einat ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Estradiol; Gonadotropin releasing hormone receptor; Neuroendocrinology; Pituitary

Indexed keywords

17,20BETA DIHYDROXYPREGN 4 EN 3 ONE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; MESSENGER RNA; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRD2 GENE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; FSHB GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GNRHR1 GENE; GNRHR3 GENE; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LHB GENE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY CYCLE; OVARY FOLLICLE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMON; TILAPIA;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYDROXYPROGESTERONES; PITUITARY GLAND; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; RECEPTORS, LHRH; STEROIDS; TILAPIA; VITELLOGENESIS;

MAMMALIA; TILAPIA;

EID: 33749064610     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.051540     Document Type: Article

References (85)

1. Patino R, Sullivan CV. Ovarian follicle growth, maturation, and ovulation in teleost fish. Fish Physiol Biochem 2002; 26:57-70.
2. Schulz RW, Miura T. Spermatogenesis and its endocrine regulation. Fish Physiol Biochem 2002; 26:43-56.
3. Nagahama Y. Endocrine regulation of gametogenesis in fish. Int J Dev Biol 1994; 38:217-229.
4. Nagahama Y. 17α,20β-Dihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one, a maturation-inducing hormone in fish oocytes: mechanisms of synthesis and action. Steroids 1997; 62:190-196.
5. Yaron Z, Levavi-Sivan B. Fish reproduction. In: Evans DH, Claibome JB, (eds.), The Physiology of Fishes, 3rd ed. Boca Raton: CRC Press LLC; 2005:345-388.
6. Senthilkumaran B, Yoshikuni M, Nagahama Y. A shift in steroidogenesis occurring in ovarian follicles prior to oocyte maturation. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2004; 215:11-18.
7. Kobayashi M, Aida K, Hanyu I. Hormone changes during ovulation and effects of steroid hormones on plasma gonadotropin levels and ovulation in goldfish. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1987; 67:24-32.
8. Millar RP, Lu ZL, Pawson AJ, Flanagan CA, Morgan K, Maudsley SR, Gault PM, Lincoln GA, Davidson L, De Maturana RL, Freestone SH, Barran P, Maudsley S. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptors. Endocr Rev 2004; 25:235-275.
9. Levavi-Sivan B, Avitan A. Sequence analysis, endocrine regulation, and signal transduction of GnRH receptors in teleost fish. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2005; 142:67-73.
10. Chen CC, Femald RD. Distributions of two gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor types in a cichlid fish suggest functional specialization. J Comp Neurol 2006; 495:314-323.
11. Parhar IS, Ogawa S, Sakuma Y. Three GnRH receptor types in laser-captured single cells of the cichlid pituitary display cellular and functional heterogeneity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005; 102:2204-2209.
12. Parhar IS, Soga T, Sakuma Y, Millar RP. Spatio-temporal expression of gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor subtypes in gonadotropes, somatotropes and lactotropes in the cichlid fish. J Neuroendocrinol 2002; 14:657-665.
13. Yaron Z. Endocrine control of gametogenesis and spawning induction in the carp. Aquaculture 1995; 129:49-73.
14. Chang JP, Yu KL, Wong AOL, Peter RE. Differential actions of dopamine receptor subtypes on gonadotropin and growth-hormone release in vitro in goldfish. Neuroendocrinology 1990; 51:664-674.
15. Levavi-Sivan B, Ofir M, Yaron Z. Possible sites of dopaminergic inhibition of gonadotropin release from the pituitary of a teleost fish, tilapia. Mol Cell Endocrinol 1995; 109:87-95.
16. Levavi-Sivan B, Avitan A, Kanias T. Characterization of the inhibitory dopamine receptor from the pituitary of tilapia. Fish Physiol Biochem 2003; 28:73-75.
17. Van Asselt LA, Goos HJ, de Leeuw R, Peter RE, Hol EM, Wassenberg FP, Van Oordt PG. Characterization of dopamine D2 receptors in the pituitary of the African catfish, Clarias gariepinus. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1990; 80:107-115.
18. Vidal B, Pasqualini C, Le Belle N, Holland MC, Sbaihi M, Vernier P, Zohar Y, Dufour S. Dopamine inhibits luteinizing hormone synthesis and release in the juvenile European eel: a neuroendocrine lock for the onset of puberty. Biol Reprod 2004; 71:1491-1500.
19. Aizen J, Meiri I, Tzchori I, Levavi-Sivan B, Rosenfeld H. Enhancing spawning in the grey mullet (Mugil cephalus) by removal of dopaminergic inhibition. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2005; 142:212-221.
20. Levavi-Sivan B, Aizen J, Avitan A. Cloning, characterization and expression of the D2 dopamine receptor from the tilapia pituitary. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2005; 236:17-30.
21. Fostier A, Jalabert B. Steroidogenesis in rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) at various preovulatory stages: changes in plasma-hormone levels and in vivo and in vitro responses of the ovary to salmon gonadotropin. Fish Physiol Biochem 1986; 2:87-99.
22. Truscott B, So YP, Nagler JJ, Idler DR. Steroids involved with final oocyte maturation in the winter flounder. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 1992; 42:351-356.
23. Marte CL, Lam TJ. Hormonal changes accompanying sexual-maturation in captive milkfish (Chanos chanos Forsskal). Fish Physiol Biochem 1992; 10:267-275.
24. Amiri BM, Maebayashi M, Adachi S, Yamauchi K. Testicular development and serum sex steroid profiles during the annual sexual cycle of the male sturgeon hybrid, the bester. J Fish Biol 1996; 48:1039-1050.
25. Wang HY, Weng CF, Tu MC, Lee SC. Synchronization of plasma sexual steroid concentrations and gonadal cycles in the sleeper, Eleotris acanthopoma. Zool Stud 2001; 40:14-20.
26. Tan Fermin JD, Miura T, Ueda H, Adachi S, Yamauchi K. Testicular histology and serum steroid hormone profiles in hatchery-bred catfish Clarias macrocephalus (Gunther) during an annual reproductive cycle. Fish Sci 1997; 63:681-686.
27. Fitzpatrick MS, Van der Kraak G, Schreck CB. Profiles of plasma sex steroids and gonadotropin in coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, during final maturation. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1986; 62:437-451.
28. Levavi-Zermonsky B, Yaron Z. Changes in gonadotropin and ovarian steroids associated with oocytes maturation during spawning induction in the carp. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1986; 62:89-98.
29. Holland MC, Gothilf Y, Meiri I, King JA, Okuzawa K, Elizur A, Zohar Y. Levels of the native forms of GnRH in the pituitary of the gilthead seabream, Sparus aurata, at several characteristic stages of the gonadal cycle. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1998; 112:394-405.
30. Rodriguez L, Carrillo M, Sorbera LA, Soubrier MA, Mananos E, Holland MCH, Zohar Y, Zanuy S. Pituitary levels of three forms of GnRH in the male European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax, L.) during sex differentiation and first spawning season. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2000; 120:67-74.
31. Hassin S, Gothilf Y, Blaise O, Zohar Y. Gonadotropin-I and -II subunit gene expression of male striped bass (Morone saxatilis) after gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue injection: quantitation using an optimized ribonuclease protection assay. Biol Reprod 1998; 58:1233-1240.
32. Kitahashi T, Alok D, Ando H, Kaeriyama M, Zohar Y, Ueda H, Urano A. GnRH analog stimulates gonadotropin II gene expression in maturing sockeye salmon. Zool Sci 1998; 15:761-765.
33. Melamed P, Gur G, Rosenfeld H, Elizur A, Schulz RW, Yaron Z. Reproductive development of male and female tilapia hybrids (Oreochromis niloticus X O. aureus) and changes in mRNA levels of gonadotropin (GtH) Iβ and IIβ subunits. J Exp Zool 2000; 286:64-75.
34. Gur G, Melamed P, Gissis A, Yaron Z. Changes along the pituitary-gonadal axis during maturation of the black carp, Mylopharyngodon piceus. J Exp Zool 2000; 286:405-413.
35. Dickey JT, Swanson P. Effects of salmon gonadotropin-releasing hormone on follicle stimulating hormone secretion and subunit gene expression in coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch). Gen Comp Endocrinol 2000; 118:436-449.
36. Meiri I, Knibb WR, Zohar Y, Elizur A. Temporal profile of β follicle-stimulating hormone, β luteinizing hormone, and growth hormone gene expression in the protandrous hermaphrodite, gilthead seabream, Sparus aurata. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2004; 137:288-299.
37. Khan IA, Hawkins MB, Thomas P. Gonadal stage-dependent effects of gonadal steroids on gonadotropin II secretion in the Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus). Biol Reprod 1999; 61:834-841.
38. Coward K, Bromage NR. Reproductive physiology of female tilapia broodstock. Rev Fish Biol Fish 2000; 10:1-25.
39. Tacon P, Baroiller JF, Le Bail PY, Prunet P, Jalabert B. Effect of egg deprivation on sex steroids, gonadotropin, prolactin, and growth hormone profiles during the reproductive cycle of the mouthbrooding cichlid fish Oreochromis niloticus. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2000; 117:54-65.
40. Levavi-Sivan B, Safarian H, Rosenfeld H, Elizur A, Avitan A. Regulation of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) receptor gene expression in tilapia: effect of GnRH and dopamine. Biol Reprod 2004; 70:1545-1551.
41. Levavi-Sivan B, Yaron Z. Involvement of cyclic adenosine monophosphate in the stimulation of gonadotropin secretion from the pituitary of the teleost fish, tilapia. Mol Cell Endocrinol 1992; 85:175-182.
42. Kasuto H, Levavi-Sivan B. Production of biologically active tethered tilapia LHβα by the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2005; 140:222-232.
43. Mananos EL, Swanson P, Stubblefield J, Zohar Y. Purification of gonadotropin II from a teleost fish, the hybrid striped bass, and development of a specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1997; 108:209-222.
44. Pavgi S, Licht P. Effects of gonadectomy and steroids on pituitary gonadotropin secretion in a frog, Rana pipiens. Biol Reprod 1989; 41:40-48.
45. Tsai P, Hayes T, Licht P. Role of aromatization in testosterone-induced inhibition of luteinizing hormone secretion in female turtles, Trachemys scripta. Biol Reprod 1994; 50:144-151.
46. Karsch FJ. Central actions of ovarian steroids in the feedback regulation of pulsatile secretion of luteinizing hormone. Ann Rev Physiol 1987; 49:365-382.
47. Kalra S, Kalra P. Neural regulation of luteinizing hormone secretion in the rat. Endocr Rev 1983; 4:311-351.
48. el Halawani ME, Silsby JL, Foster LK, Rozenboim I, Foster DN. Ovarian involvement in the suppression of luteinizing hormone in the incubating turkey (Meleagris gallopavo). Neuroendocrinology 1993; 58:35-41.
49. Yaron Z, Gur G, Melamed P, Rosenfeld H, Elizur A, Levavi-Sivan B. Regulation of fish gonadotropins. Int Rev Cytol 2003; 225:131-185.
50. Reeves JJ, Arimura A, Schally AV. Changes in pituitary responsiveness to luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) in anestrous ewes pretreated with estradiol benzoate. Biol Reprod 1971; 4:88-92.
51. Clarke IJ, Brown BW, Tran VV, Scott CJ, Fry R, Millar RP, Rao A. Neonatal immunization against gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) results in diminished GnRH secretion in adulthood. Endocrinology 1998; 139:2007-2014.
52. Schoenemann H, Humphrey W, Crowder M, Nett T, Reeves J. Pituitary luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone receptors in ovariectomized cows after challenge with ovarian steroids. Biol Reprod 1985; 32:574-583.
53. Bauer-Dantoin A, Weiss J, Jameson J. Roles of estrogen, progesterone, and gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) in the control of pituitary GnRH receptor gene expression at the time of the preovulatory gonadotropin surges. Endocrinology 1995; 136:1014-1019.
54. Yasin M, Dalkin AC, Haisenleder D, Kerrigan JR, Marshall JC. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) pulse pattern regulates GnRH receptor gene expression: augmentation by estradiol. Endocrinology 1995; 136:1559-1564.
55. Turzillo AM, Clapper JA, Moss GE, Nett TM. Regulation of ovine GnRH receptor gene expression by progesterone and oestradiol. J Reprod Fertil 1998; 113:251-256.
56. Kah O, Dulka JG, Dubourg P, Thibault J, Peter RE. Neuroanatomical substrate for the inhibition of gonadotrophin secretion in goldfish: existence of a dopaminergic preoptico-hypophyseal pathway. Neuroendocrinology 1987; 45:451-458.
57. Linard B, Anglade I, Corio M, Navas JM, Pakdel F, Saligaut C, Kah O. Estrogen receptors are expressed in a subset of tyrosine hydroxylase-positive neurons of the anterior preoptic region in the rainbow trout. Neuroendocrinology 1996; 63:156-165.
58. Saligaut C, Linard B, Breton B, Anglade I, Bailhache T, Kah O, Jego P. Brain aminergic systems in salmonids and other teleosts in relation to steroid feedback and gonadotropin release. Aquaculture 1999; 177:13-20.
59. Linard B, Bennani S, Saligaut C. Involvement of estradiol in a catecholamine inhibitory tone of gonadotropin release in the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Gen Comp Endocrinol 1995; 99:192-196.
60. Vacher C, Ferriere F, Marmignon MH, Pellegrini E, Saligaut C. Dopamine D2 receptors and secretion of FSH and LH: role of sexual steroids on the pituitary of the female rainbow trout. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2002; 127:198-206.
61. Nocillado JN, Levavi-Sivan B, Avitan A, Carrick F, Elizur A. Isolation of dopamine D2 receptor (D2R) promoters in Mugil cephalus. Fish Physiol Biochem 2006; (in press).
62. Gomez JM, Weil C, Ollitrault M, Le Bail PY, Breton B, Le Gac F. Growth hormone (GH) and gonadotropin subunit gene expression and pituitary and plasma changes during spermatogenesis and oogenesis in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Gen Comp Endocrinol 1999; 113:413-428.
63. Melamed P, Rosenfeld H, Elizur A, Yaron Z. Endocrine regulation of gonadotropin and growth hormone gene transcription in fish. Comp Biochem Physiol C Pharmacol Toxicol Endocrinol 1998; 119:325-338.
64. Onuma T, Ando H, Koide N, Okada H, Urano A. Effects of salmon GnRH and sex steroid hormones on expression of genes encoding growth hormone/prolactin/ somatolactin family hormones and a pituitary-specific transcription factor in masu salmon pituitary cells in vitro. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2005; 143:129-141.
65. Kobayashi M, Stacey NE. Effects of ovariectomy and steroid hormone implantation on serum gonadotropin levels in female goldfish. Zool Sci 1990; 7:715-721.
66. de Leeuw R, Wurth YA, Zandbergen MA, Peute J, Goos HJ. The effects of aromatizable androgens, non-aromatizable androgens, and estrogens on gonadotropin release in castrated African catfish, Clarias gariepinus (Burchell): a physiological and ultrastructural study. Cell Tissue Res 1986; 243:587-594.
67. Senthilkumaran B, Joy KP. Effects of administration of some monoamine-synthesis blockers and precursors on ovariectomy-induced rise in plasma gonadotropin II in the catfish Heteropneustes fossilis. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1996; 101:220-226.
68. Klenke U, Zohar Y. Gonadal regulation of gonadotropin subunit expression and pituitary LH protein content in female hybrid striped bass. Fish Physiol Biochem 2003; 28:25-27.
69. Mateos J, Mananos E, Carrillo M, Zanuy S. Regulation of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) gene expression by gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and sexual steroids in the Mediterranean Sea bass. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2002; 132:75-86.
70. Bommelaer MC, Billard R, Breton B. Changes in plasma gonadotropin after ovariectomy and estradiol supplementation at different stages at the end of the reproductive cycle in the rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri R.). Reprod Nutr Dev 1981; 21:989-997.
71. Larsen DA, Swanson P. Effects of gonadectomy on plasma gonadotropins I and II in coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1997; 108:152-160.
72. Rosenfeld H, Levavi-Sivan B, Gur G, Melamed P, Meiri I, Yaron Z, Elizur A. Characterization of tilapia FSHβ gene and analysis of its 5′ flanking region. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2001; 129:389-398.
73. Xiong F, Liu D, Le Drean Y, Elsholtz HP, Hew CL. Differential recruitment of steroid hormone response elements may dictate the expression of the pituitary gonadotropin IIβ subunit gene during salmon maturation. Mol Endocrinol 1994; 8:782-793.
74. Turzillo AM, Nolan TE, Nett TM. Regulation of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) receptor gene expression in sheep: interaction of GnRH and estradiol. Endocrinology 1998; 139:4890-4894.
75. Ando H, Swanson P, Urano A. Regulation of LH synthesis and release by GnRH and gonadal steroids in masu salmon. Fish Physiol Biochem 2003; 28:61-63.
76. Ando H, Swanson P, Kitani T, Koide N, Okada H, Ueda H, Urano A. Synergistic effects of salmon gonadotropin-releasing hormone and estradiol-17β on gonadotropin subunit gene expression and release in masu salmon pituitary cells in vitro. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2004; 137:109-121.
77. Jodo A, Kitahashi T, Taniyama S, Ueda H, Urano A, Ando H. Seasonal changes in expression of genes encoding five types of gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptors and responses to GnRH analog in the pituitary of masu salmon. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2005; 144:1-9.
78. Alok D, Hassin S, Sampath Kumar R, Trant JM, Yu K, Zohar Y. Characterization of a pituitary GnRH-receptor from a perciform fish, Marone saxatilis: functional expression in a fish cell line. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2000; 168:65-75.
79. Crowder ME, Nett TM. Pituitary content of gonadotropins and receptors for gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and hypothalamic content of GnRH during the periovulatory period of the ewe. Endocrinology 1984; 114:234-239.
80. Laws SC, Beggs MJ, Webster JC, Miller WL. Inhibin increases and progesterone decreases receptors for gonadotropin-releasing hormone in ovine pituitary culture. Endocrinology 1990; 127:373-380.
81. Nett TM, Turzillo AM, Baratta M, Rispoli LA. Pituitary effects of steroid hormones on secretion of follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone. Domest Anim Endocrinol 2002; 23:33-42.
82. Turzillo A, Juengel J, Nett T. Pulsatile gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) increases concentrations of GnRH receptor messenger ribonucleic acid and numbers of GnRH receptors during luteolysis in the ewe. Biol Reprod 1995; 53:418-423.
83. 2 receptors and secretion of follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone during the annual reproductive cycle of female rainbow trout. J Neuroendocrinol 2000; 12:1219-1226.
84. Nagahama Y. 17α,20β-Dihydroxy4-pregnen-3-one: a teleost maturation-inducing hormone. Dev Growth Differ 1987; 29:1-12.
85. Dickey JT, Swanson P. Effects of sex steroids on gonadotropin (FSH and LH) regulation in coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch). J Mol Endocrinol 1998; 21:291-306.