Absence of inhibitory dopaminergic control of the rabbit pituitary gland intermediate lobe.
Neuroendocrinology
; 42(1): 71-4, 1986.
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| ID: mdl-2867483
No immunoreactive axons were detected with an antiserum against tyrosine hydroxylase in the rabbit intermediate lobe (IL), which thus appears to be devoid of dopaminergic (DA) innervation. Dopamine and its agonists, which classically inhibit alpha-MSH release have no inhibitory effects on rabbit IL superfused in vitro but, paradoxically, stimulate alpha-MSH release. D2 type DA receptors, known to mediate inhibitory control of dopamine on melanotropic cells, and detectable by their affinity for (3H)-spiroperidol, were as previously reported absent from the rabbit IL. The absence of (3H)-spiroperidol binding sites in the IL was further confirmed on rabbit pituitary sections by radioautography. The mechanism of DA stimulation is still not clear, but might be tentatively explained by interference with other receptors involved in the stimulation of the gland. The lack of DA inhibitory control over the rabbit IL is an exception among the species so far studied.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pituitary Gland
/
Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormones
/
Dopamine
Limits:
Animals
Language:
En
Journal:
Neuroendocrinology
Year:
1986
Document type:
Article
Country of publication:
Switzerland