Testosterone recruits new aromatase-imunoreactive cells in neonatal quail brain

NeuroReport

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 376-380

  Bardet, Sylvia M ^a   Cornil, Charlotte A ^a   Balthazart, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Coturnix japonica; Hypothalamus; Japanese quail; Medial preoptic nucleus; Preoptic area; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CELL COUNT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; ZONA INCERTA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; COTURNIX; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; TESTOSTERONE; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 77949471693     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3283378edf     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. McEwen BS. Neural gonadal steroid actions. Science 1981; 211:1303-1311.
2. Balthazart J, Baillien M, Cornil CA, Ball GF. Preoptic aromatase modulates male sexual behavior: slow and fast mechanisms of action. Physiol Behav 2004; 83:247-270.
3. Balthazart J, Taziaux M, Holloway K, Ball GF, Cornil CA. Behavioral effects of brain-derived estrogens in birds. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2009; 1163:31-48.
4. Roselli CE, Cross E, Poonyagariyagorn HK, Stadelman HL. Role of aromatization in anticipatory and consummatory aspects of sexual behavior in male rats. Horm Behav 2003; 44:146-151.
5. Balthazart J. Steroid metabolism and the activation of social behavior. In: Balthazart J, editor. Advances in comparative and environmental physiology. Vol.3. Berlin: Springer Verlag; 1989. pp. 105-159.
6. Naftolin F, MacLusky NJ. Aromatization hypothesis revisited. In: Serio M, Motta M, Zanisi M, Martini L, editors. Sexual differentiation: basic and clinical aspects. New York: Raven Press; 1984. pp. 79-91.
7. Steimer T, Hutchison JB. Androgen increases formation of behaviourally effective oestrogen in dove brain. Nature 1981; 292:345-347.
8. Lephart ED. A review of brain aromatase cytochrome P450. Brain Res Rev 1996; 22:1-26.
9. Schumacher M, Balthazart J. Testosterone-induced brain aromatase is sexually dimorphic. Brain Res 1986; 370:285-293.
10. Balthazart J, Tlemçani O, Harada N. Localization of testosterone-sensitive and sexually dimorphic aromatase-immunoreactive cells in the quail preoptic area. J Chem Neuroanat 1996; 11:147-171.
11. Balthazart J, Ball GF. Is brain estradiol a hormone or a neurotransmitter? Trends Neurosci 2006; 29:241-249.
12. Balthazart J, Schumacher M, Evrard L. Sex differences and steroid control of testosterone-metabolizing enzyme activity in the quail brain. J Neuroendocrinol 1990; 2:675-683.
13. Foidart A, De Clerck A, Harada N, Balthazart J. Aromatase-immunoreactive cells in the quail brain: effects of testosterone and sex dimorphism. Physiol Behav 1994; 55:453-464.
14. Foidart A, Harada N, Balthazart J. Effects of steroidal and non steroidal aromatase inhibitors on sexual behavior and aromatase-immunoreactive cells and fibers in the quail brain. Brain Res 1994; 657:105-123.
15. Schumacher M, Hutchison RE, Hutchison JB. Ontogeny of testosteroneinducible brain aromatase activity. Brain Res 1988; 441:98-110.
16. Schumacher M, Hutchison JB. Testosterone induces hypothalamic aromatase during early development in quail. Brain Res 1986; 377:63-72.
17. Taziaux M, Lopez J, Cornil CA, Balthazart J, Holloway KS. Differential c-fos expression in the brain of male Japanese quail following exposure to stimuli that predict or do not predict the arrival of a female. Eur J Neurosci 2007; 25:2835-2846.
18. Roselli CE, Resko JA. In vitro assay of aromatase activity in the central nervous system. In: Greenstein B, editor. Neuroendocrine research methods. Vol.2. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers; 1991. pp. 937-951.
19. Baillien M, Balthazart J. A direct dopaminergic control of aromatase activity in the quail preoptic area. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 1997; 63:99-113.
20. Cornil CA, Dalla C, Papadopoulu-Daifoti Z, Baillien M, Dejace C, Ball GF, Balthazart J. Rapid decreases in preoptic aromatase activity and brain monoamine concentrations after engaging in male sexual behavior. Endocrinology 2005; 146:3809-3820.
21. Carere C, Ball GF, Balthazart J. Sex differences in projections from preoptic area aromatase cells to the periaqueductal gray in Japanese quail. J Comp Neurol 2007; 500:894-907.
22. Bardet SM, Woods J, Balthazart J. Extended neural proliferation in the embryonic medial preoptic nucleus in female quail. Abst Soc Behav Neuroendo 2009; 13:130-131. (East Lansing).
23. Balthazart J, Tlemçani O, Harada N, Baillien M. Ontogeny of aromatase and tyrosine hydroxylase activity and of aromatase-immunoreactive cells in the preoptic area of male and female Japanese quail. J Neuroendocrinol 2000; 12:853-866.
24. Ottinger MA, Brinkley HJ. Testosterone and sex related physical characteristics during the maturation of the male Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica). Biol Reprod 1979; 20:905-909..