Role of sex steroids in progesterone and corticosterone response to acute restraint stress in rats: Sex differences

Stress

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 452-460

  Kalil, B ^a   Leite, C M ^a   Carvalho Lima, M ^a   Anselmo Franci, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adrenal Glands; Corticosterone; Gonads; Progesterone; Restraint stress; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL CIPIONATE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ACUTE STRESS; ANDROGEN THERAPY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GONADECTOMY; HORMONE RESPONSE; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROGESTERONE RELEASE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; PROESTRUS; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84879094581     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253890.2013.777832     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Andersen ML, Bignotto M, Machado RB, Tufik S. (2004). Different stress modalities result in distinct steroid hormone responses by male rats. Braz J Med Biol Res 37:791-7.
2. Atkinson HC, Waddell BJ. (1997). Circadian variation in basal plasma corticosterone and adrenocorticotropin in the rat: sexual dimorphism and changes across the estrous cycle. Endocrinology 138:3842-8.
3. Brunton PJ, Bales J, Russell JA. (2012). Allopregnanolone and induction of endogenous opioid inhibition of oxytocin responses to immune stress in pregnant rats. J Neuroendocrinol 24(4):690-700.
4. Brunton PJ, McKay AJ, Ochedalski T, Piastowska A, Rebas E, Lachowicz A, Russell JA. (2009). Central opioid inhibition of neuroendocrine stress responses in pregnancy in the rat is induced by the neurosteroid allopregnanolone. J Neurosci 29:6449-60.
5. Budec M, Koko V, Milovanovic T, Balint-Peric L, Petkovic A. (2002). Acute ethanol treatment increases level of progesterone in ovariectomized rats. Alcohol 26:173-8.
6. Charlton BG. (1990). Adrenal cortical innervation and glucocorticoid secretion. J Endocrinol 126:5-8.
7. Chrousos GP, Gold PW. (1992). The concepts of stress and stress system disorders. Overview of physical and behavioral homeostasis. JAMA 267:1244-52.
8. Critchlow V, Liebelt RA, Bar-Sela M, Mountcastle W, Lipscomb HS. (1963). Sex difference in resting pituitary-adrenal function in the rat. Am J Physiol 205:807-15.
9. Cutler GB, Barnes KM, Sauer MA, Loriaux DL. (1978). Estrogen Receptor in Rat Adrenal Gland. Endocrinology 102:252-7.
10. Deis RP, Leguizamon E, Jahn GA. (1989). Feedback regulation by progesterone of stress-induced prolactin release in rats. J Endocrinol 120:37-43.
11. Ehrhart-Bornstein M, Hinson JP, Bornstein SR, Scherbaum WA, Vinson GP. (1998). Intraadrenal interactions in the regulation of adrenocortical steroidogenesis. Endocr Rev 19(2):101-43.
12. Fajer AB, Holzbauer M, Newport HM. (1971). The contribution of adrenal gland to the total amount of progesterone produced in the female rat. J Physiol 214(1):115-26.
13. Feek CM, Tuzi NL, Edwards CR. (1989). The adrenal gland and progesterone stimulates testicular steroidogenesis in the rat in vivo. J Steroid Biochem 32(4):573-9.
14. Fenske M. (1986). Adrenal function in the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus): influence of confinement stress upon glucocorticoid, progesterone, dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone and androstenedione plasma levels, adrenal content and in-vitro secretion. Exp Clin Endocrinol 87(1):15-25.
15. Frye CA. (2007). Progestin influence motivation, reward, conditioning, stress and/or response to drug of abuse. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 86(2):209-19.
16. Goldstein DS, Kopin IJ. (2007). Evolution of concepts of stress. Stress 10:109-20.
17. Handa RJ, Burgess LH, Kerr JE, O'Keefe JA. (1994). Gonadal steroid hormone receptors and sex differences in the hypothalamo-pituitaryadrenal axis. Horm Behav 28:464-76.
18. Harms PG, Ojeda SR. (1974). A rapid and simple procedure for chronic cannulation of the rat jugular vein. J Appl Physiol 36:391-92.
19. He XR, Wang W, Crofton JT, Share L. (1998). Effects of 17beta-estradiol on sympathetic activity and pressor response to phenylephrine in ovariectomized rats. Am J Physiol 275:R1202-8.
20. Hiromichi Y, Yoshihiro T, Tadayuki M, Kazunori I. (1998). Steroid 5 a-reductase type 1 immunolocalized in the adrenal gland of normal, gonadectomised, and sex hormone-supplemented rats. Histochem Cell Biol 109:127-34.
21. Holgert H, Dagerlind A, Hokfelt T. (1998). Immunohistochemical characterization of the peptidergic innervation of the rat adrenal gland. Horm Metab Res 30:315-22.
22. Jaroenporn S, Nagaoka K,Kasahara C, Ohta R, Watanabe G, Taya K. (2007). Physiological roles of prolactin in the adrenocortical response to acute restraint stress. Endocr J 54(5):703-11.
23. Kitay JI. (1961). Sex differences in adrenal cortical secretion in the rat. Endocrinology 68:818-24.
24. Kitay JI. (1963). Effects of testosterone on pituitary corticotrophin and adrenal steroid secretion in male and female rats. Acta Endocrinol (Copenh) 43:601-8.
25. Kitay JI. (1965). Effects of oophorectomy and various doses of estradiol-17beta on corticosterone production by rat adrenal slices. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 120:193-6.
26. Lovick TA. (2012). Estrous cycle and stress: influence of progesterone on the female brain. Braz J Med Biol Res 45(4):314-20.
27. Malendowicz LK. (1979). Sex differences in adrenocortical structure and function. V. The effects of postpubertal gonadectomy and gonadal hormone replacement on nuclear-cytoplasmatic ratio, morphology and histochemistry of rat adrenal cortex. Folia Histochem Cytochem (Krakow) 17(3):195-214.
28. Nequin LG, Alvarez JA, Campbell CS. (1975). Alterations in steroids and gonadotropin release resulting from surgical stress during the morning of proestrus in 5-day cyclic rats. Endocrinology 97(3): 718-24.
29. Oettel M, Mukhopadhyay AK. (2004). Progesterone: the forgotten hormone in men? The Aging Male 7:236-57
30. Paris JJ, Frye CA. (2011). Gestacional exposure to variable stressors produces decrements in cognitive and neural development of juvenile males and females rats. Curr Top Med Chem 11(13): 1706-13.
31. Patchev VK, Hassan AH, Holsboer DF, Almeida OF. (1996). The neurosteroid tetrahydroprogesterone attenuates the endocrine response to stress and exerts glucocorticoid-like effects on vasopressin gene transcription in the rat hypothalamus. Neuropsychopharmacology 15:533-40.
32. Plas-Roser S, Aron C. (1981). Stress related effects in the control of sexual receptivity and in the secretion of progesterone by the adrenals in cyclic female rats. Physiol Behav 27(2):261-4.
33. Pruessner JC, Kirschbaum C, Meinlschmid G, Hellhammer DH. (2003). Two formulas for computation of the area under the curve represent measures of total hormone concentration versus time-dependent change. Psychoneuroendocrinology 28:916-31.
34. Purdy RH, Morrow AL, Moore Jr PH, Paul SM. (1991). Stress-induced elevation of gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptor-active steroids in the rat brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 88:4553-7.
35. Raps D, Barthe PL. (1970). Plasma and adrenal corticosterone levels during the different phases of the sexual cycle in normal female rats. Experientia 27:339-40.
36. Romeo RD, Bellani R, McEwen BS. (2005). Stress-induced progesterone secretion and progesterone receptor immunoreactivity in the paraventricular nucleus are modulated by pubertal development in male rats. Stress 8(4):265-71.
37. Romeo RD, Lee SJ, McEwen BS. (2004). Differential stress reactivity in intact and ovariectomized prepubertal and adult female rats. Neuroendocrinology 80:387-93.
38. Schaeffer C, Aron C. (1987). Stress-related effects on the secretion of progesterone by the adrenals in castrated male rats presented to stimulus males. Involvement of oestrogen. Acta Endocrinol (Copenh) 114(3):440-5.
39. Stege R, Eriksson A, Henriksson P, Carlstron K. (1987). Orchiectomy or oestrogen treatment in prostatic cancer: effects on serum levels of adrenal androgens and related steroids. Int J Androl 10(4): 581-7.
40. Szawka RE, Rodovalho GV, Monteiro PM, Carrer HF, Anselmo-Franci JA. (2009). Ovarian-steroid modulation of locus coeruleus activity in female rats: involvement in luteinising hormone regulation. J Neuroendocrinol 21(7):629-39.
41. Toth IE. (1998). Transneuronal labeling of CNS neurons involved in the innervation of the adrenal gland. Horm Metab Res 30:329-33.
42. Traslaviña GA, Franci CR. (2011). The CRH-R1 receptor mediates luteinizing hormone, prolactin, corticosterone and progesterone secretion induced by restraint stress in estrogen-primed rats. Brain Res 1421:11-19.
43. Uchoa ET, Sabino HA, Ruginsk SG, Antunes-Rodrigues J, Elias LLK. (2009). Hypophagia induced by glucocorticoid deficiency is associated with an increased activation of satiety-related responses. J Appl Physiol 106(2):596-604.
44. Valdez SR, Bonafede MM, Carreño NB, Deis RP, Jahn GA. (2012). Lactation defict in OFA hr/hr rats may be caused by differential sensitivity to stress compared with Wistar and Sprague-Dawley rats. Stress 15(4):361-77.
45. Viau V, Meaney MJ. (1991). Variations in the hypothalamic- pituitaryadrenal response to stress during the estrous cycle in the rat. Endocrinology 129:2503-11.
46. Welsh TH, Jonhson BH. (1981). Stress-induced alterations in secretion of corticosteroids, progesterone, luteinizing hormone and testosterone in bulls. Endocrinology 109(1):185-90.