卵泡抑素
内科学
内分泌学
生物
自分泌信号
促性腺细胞
垂体前叶
激活素2型受体
细胞因子
垂体
促性腺激素
促卵泡激素
激活素受体
受体
转化生长因子β信号通路
激素
转化生长因子
促黄体激素
医学
作者
Louise M. Bilezikjian,Andrew V. Turnbull,Anne Corrigan,Amy L. Blount,Catherine Rivier,Wylie Vale
出处
期刊:Endocrinology
[The Endocrine Society]
日期:1998-07-01
卷期号:139 (7): 3361-3364
被引量:28
标识
DOI:10.1210/endo.139.7.6190
摘要
Activins and follistatins regulate all levels of the reproductive axis, including the pituitary where they stimulate and inhibit FSH production, respectively. Gonadotropes are known to express inhibin/activin betaB and activin-B (betaBbetaB) functions as an autocrine modulator of FSH production. By contrast, the mRNA for the activin-binding protein, follistatin, is present in most pituitary cells and folliculo-stellate cells may be the major source of the protein secreted by the anterior pituitary. Interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) is one of several cytokines known to also influence the reproductive axis. IL-1beta inhibits the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis by suppressing GnRH and gonadal steroid production. Because several pituitary cell types, including follistatin-producing folliculo-stellate cells, are targets of IL-1beta, cytokine effects on gonadotrope function were evaluated using cultured rat anterior pituitary cells. Activin-A (0.01 to 1 nM; 24h) increased basal FSH secretion approximately 2-fold. IL-1beta (0.005 to 0.5 nM) by itself had no effect on basal FSH secretion. However, IL-1beta attenuated FSH secretion in response to all concentrations of activin-A. These results suggest that the cytokine might stimulate the local production of a factor, such as follistatin, that antagonizes the action of activin-A. RNase protection analysis indicated that IL-1beta (0.005 to 5 nM) stimulated follistatin and inhibin/activin betaB mRNA accumulation in a time-dependent manner. These in vitro effects of IL-1beta were blocked by the specific IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-lra) and were not mimicked by either rhIL-6 or lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Treatment of intact male rats with LPS (50 microg, i.v.), which increases plasma IL-1beta and induces IL-1beta expression in many tissues, including the pituitary, produced similar time-dependent increases in pituitary follistatin and inhibin/activin subunit mRNA levels. These results suggest that IL-1beta can modulate gonadotrope responses to activins by influencing the local balance of activin-B and follistatin within the pituitary.
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