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11544564

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-9-6
pubmed:abstractText
Previous studies have shown that B lymphopoiesis is augmented after androgen withdrawal in male mice. As an analogy to the skeletal system, some effects of androgens on the proliferation of B cells may be mediated via aromatization into estrogens in vivo. The aim of the present study was to assess the effects of androgen withdrawal on B lymphopoiesis in bone marrow of aged male rats sequentially over a period of 9 months, and to correlate the flow-cytometric findings with changes in systemic levels of sex steroids. We first showed that androgen withdrawal is associated with enhanced B lymphopoiesis in bone marrow of 4-month-old male orchiectomized (ORX) rats, and that the changes in the bone marrow B cell compartment in ORX animals can be reversed by testosterone supplementation. In a subsequent, sequential experiment, we found that orchiectomy induced a sustained rise in Thy 1.1+/CD45R+ bone marrow cells committed for the B cell lineage that lasted for several months in 13-month-old aged rats. In a stepwise model of multiple regression analysis using estradiol, free and total testosterone as independent variables, estradiol was the strongest predictor of the percentage of B precursor cells in bone marrow in aged SHAM and ORX rats. Free and total testosterone did not correlate with B lymphopoiesis in aged SHAM rats. The current experiment has clearly shown that androgen withdrawal upregulates the number of B lineage cells over several months in rat bone marrow. Furthermore, our results provide evidence that estradiol may play an important role as a physiological suppressor of B lymphopoiesis in aged male rats.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0018-5043
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
33
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
491-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-2-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
B lymphopoiesis is upregulated after orchiectomy and is correlated with estradiol but not testosterone serum levels in aged male rats.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Physiology, Physiological Chemistry and Animal Nutrition, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany. R.Erben@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article