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2866817

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-2-18
pubmed:abstractText
BALB/cJ mice have more tuberoinfundibular dopamine neurons, and thus greater tyrosine hydroxylase activity, than CBA/J mice. Strain differences in the synthesis and release of prolactin would also be predicted since dopamine released from the tuberoinfundibular neurons is the prolactin inhibitory factor which plays a role in the regulation of both prolactin synthesis and release. As expected, CBA/J mice, with fewer dopamine neurons, synthesized and released significantly more prolactin than BALB/cJ mice; that is, both pituitary and serum prolactin concentrations were greater in CBA/J mice. To determine if there were more cells containing prolactin or more prolactin per cell, pituitaries were stained with antibodies to prolactin and densitometric analysis made of both the average staining per unit area and total staining per pituitary. For both indices CBA/J mice had more staining than BALB/cJ mice. Using these criteria the difference in staining was attributed to more prolactin-stained lactotrophs in the CBA/J strain. Although no differences in the number of acidophils demonstrated by Pearse Trichrome method were observed, acidophils from BALB/cJ mice appeared smaller and contained less cytoplasm than those from CBA/J mice. We conclude that strain differences in the number of tuberoinfundibular dopamine neurons are inversely related to the number of immunocytochemically demonstrable prolactin-containing cells in the anterior pituitary.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0006-8993
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
9
pubmed:volume
358
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
16-26
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1985
pubmed:articleTitle
Strain differences in pituitary prolactin content: relationship to number of hypothalamic dopamine neurons.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.