Effects of adenine on the pituitary-gonad axis in newborns rats

Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 2413-2417

  Johari, Habibollah ^a   Parhizkar, Z ^b   Talebi, E ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adenine; Estrogen; FSH; LH; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; NEWBORN; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

ADENINE; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; PITUITARY GLAND; PROGESTERONE; RATS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 57749119266     PISSN: 10288880     EISSN: 18125735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2008.2413.2417     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Abraham, A.K., 1981. Effect of polyamines on the fidelity of macromolecular synthesis. Med. Biol., 59: 368-373.
2. Aronica, S.M. and B.S. Katzenellenbogen, 1991. Progesterone receptor regulation in uterine cells: Stimulation by estrogen, cyclic adenosine-monophosphate and insulin like growth factor I and suppression by antiestrogens and protein kinase inhibitors. Endocrinology, 128: 2045-2052.
3. Berson, S.A. and R.S. Yalow, 1973. Methods in Investigative and Diagnostic Endocrinology 2a Part 1 General Methodology Part 2 Pituitary Hormones and Hypothalamic Releasing Factor and 2b Part 3 Non Pituitary Hormones (Hardcover). 1st Edn., North Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam.
4. Bethell, D.R., H. Hibasami and A.E. Pegg, 1982. Regulation of polyamine content in cultured fibroblasts. Am. J. Physiol., 243: 262-269.
5. Chen, K.Y. and A.Y. Liu, 1981. Differences in polyamine metabolism of the undifferentiated and differentiated neuroblastoma cells. Metabolic labeling of an 18000-m (r) protein by (14c) putrescine and the conversion of putrescine to GABA. FEBS Lett., 134: 71-74.
6. Damassa, D.A., E.R. Smith, B. Tennent and J.M. Davidson, 1977. The relationship between circulatory testosterone levels and male sexual behavior rats. Horm. Behav., 8: 275-286.
7. Danialzadeh, A. and K. Zareian, 2001. Principle of Biochemistry. 3rd Edn., Can. of University Pub. of Tehran, Tehran.
8. De Kretser, D.M., R.C. Atkins and C.A. Paulson, 1973. Role of the kidney in the metabolism of luteinizing hormone. J. Endocrinol., 58: 425-434.
9. Gray, J.A. and R.G. Kavlock, 1991. Physiological consequence of early neonatal growth retardation. Effects of alpha-difluromethylorithine on renal growth and function in the rat. Teratology, 43: 19-26.
10. Hatse, S., L. Naesens, E. De Clerq, M. Vandeputte, M. Waer, C. Segers, B. Degreve and J. Balzarini, 1998. Potent antitumor activity of the acyclic nucleoside phosphonate 9-(2phosphonylmethoxyethyl) adenine in choriocarcinoma-bearing rats. Int. J. Cancer, 76: 595-600.
11. Holdsworth, S., R.C. Atkins and D.M. De Kretser, 1977. The pituitary-testicular axis in men with chronic renal failure. N. Engl. J. Med., 296: 1245-1249.
12. Houghton, M., 2006. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. 4th Edn., Haughton Mifflin Company, America.
13. Huang, H.F., M.T. Li, S. Wang, L.M. Pogach and J.E. Ottenweller, 2003. Alteration of cyclic adenosine-monophosphate signaling in rat testicular cells after spinal cord injury. J. Spinal Cord Med., 26: 69-78.
14. Knecht, M.J., M. Darbon, T. Ranta, A.J. Baukal and K.J. Catt, 1984. Estrogen enhance the adenosine-monophosphate-mediated induction of follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone receptors in rat granulosa cells. Endocrinology, 115: 41-49.
15. Levy, M. and R. Brene, 1990. Principle of Physiology. 3rd Edn., C.V. Mosby Company, United States of America, America, ISBN: 0808923218.
16. Mamont, P.S., M.C. Duchesne, J. Grove and P. Bey, 1978. Anti-proliferative properties of DL-alpha-difluoromethylornithine in cultured cells. A consequence of the irreversible inhibition of ornithine decarboxylase. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 81: 58-66.
17. Muller, M., A. Dorn, H.G. Bernstein, A. Pajunen and M.J. Arvinen, 1986. Immunohistochemical demonstration of ornithine decarboxylase in tissues. A preliminary study. Acta. Histochem. Suppl., 336: 197-199.
18. Nazian, S.J. and J.R. Dietz, 1987. Reproductive changes during the early stages of chronic renal insufficiency in the male rat. Biol. Reprod., 37: 105-111.
19. Pegg, A.E., K. Shuttleworth and H. Hibasami, 1981. Specificity of mammalian spermidine synthase and spermine synthase. Biochem. J., 197: 315-320.
20. Pegg, A.E., 1986. Recent advances in the biochemistry of polyamines in eukaryotes. Biochem. J., 234: 249-262.
21. Pochmann, D., B. Rucker, A.M. Battastini and J.J. Sarkis, 2004. Ovariectomy and estradiol replacement therapy alters the adenine nucleotide hydrolysis in rat blood serum. Thromb. Res., 114: 275-281.
22. Scaramuzzi, R.J. and D.J. Baker, 2003. Possible therapeutic benefits of adenosine potentiating drugs in reducing age-related degenerative disease in dogs and cats. J. Vet Pharmacol. Therap., 26: 327-335.
23. Shahbazy, P. and N. Maleknia, 2002. General Biochemistry. 4th Edn., Tehran Univ., Tehran, ISBN: 964-03-9317-7.
24. Slotkin, T.A., D. Persons, R.J. Slepetis, D. Taylor and J. Bartolome, 1984. Control of nucleic and protein synthesis in developing brain, kidney and heart of the neonatal rat; Effects of α-difluoromethylornithine, a specific, irreversible inhibitor of ornithine decarboxylase. Teratology, 30: 211-224.
25. Xu, H.L., R.A. Santizo, H.M. Koenig and D.A. Pelligrino, 2001. Chronic estrogen depletion alters adenosine diphosphate-induced pial arteriolar dilation in female rats. Am. J. Physiol. Heart Circ. Physiol., 281: H2105-H2112.
26. Yazawa, T., T. Mizutani, K.Y. Amada, H. Kawata and T. Sekiguchi et al., 2003. Involvement of cyclic adenosine-monophosphate response element-binding protein, steroidogenic factor 1 and Dax-1 in the regulation of gonadotrophin-inducible ovarian transcription factor 1 gene expression by follicle-stimulation hormone in ovarian granulosa cells. Endocrinology, 144: 1920-1930.
27. Zhang, J.G. and W.E. Lindup, 1997. Cisplatin-induced changes in adenine nucleotides in rat kidney slices: Amelioration by troponin and procaine. J. Pharm. Phymacol., 49: 1136-1140.