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Endocrinology, Vol 120, 2289-2296, Copyright © 1987 by Endocrine Society

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N-methyl-D,L-aspartate elicits hypothalamic gonadotropin-releasing hormone release in prepubertal male rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)

VL Gay and TM Plant

In higher primates, the protracted delay from infancy to puberty results from an interruption in hypothalamic GnRH release. To determine whether the quiescent hypothalamic GnRH neurons of the prepubertal macaque are capable of discharging the decapeptide in response to a generalized neural depolarization, an excitatory amino acid analog, N- methyl-D,L-aspartate (NMA), was administered systemically to orchidectomized rhesus monkeys between 13 and 20 months of age. GnRH secretion was estimated indirectly by monitoring changes in circulating LH concentrations after the responsivity of pituitary gonadotropes to GnRH had been greatly facilitated by the chronic intermittent iv infusion of GnRH (0.1 microgram/min for 3 min every hour). The iv bolus administration of increasing doses of NMA (1.5, 4.8, and 15.0 mg/kg BW), 10-14 h after termination of the priming infusion of GnRH, elicited distinct discharges of LH, with magnitudes directly related to the amount of the excitant injected. Administration of a higher dose of NMA (48 mg/kg BW), however, failed to induce further LH release. The finding that pretreatment with a long-acting and potent GnRH receptor antagonist [( AcD2Nal1,4ClPhe2,DTrp3,DArg6,DAla10] GnRH-HOAc) abolished the LH-releasing activity of NMA provides compelling evidence for the view that the action of the neural excitant to induce gonadotropin release was exerted at a suprapituitary level. The additional observation that an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist (D,L-2- amino-5-phosphono-valeric acid) blocked the NMA-induced release of GnRH suggests that the amino acid analog interacted with the N-methyl-D- aspartate receptor on neurons that synthesize and/or control the release of the hypothalamic hormone. Most interestingly, three sequential GnRH discharges, with a period and an amplitude apparently similar to those generated by the hypothalamus of the adult, were elicited from the brain of prepubertal monkeys by the sequential administration of three injections of NMA at hourly intervals. Taken together these findings demonstrate that the apparent dormancy of hypothalamic GnRH neurons, which is characteristic of prepubertal development in higher primates and underlies the protracted delay in the onset of puberty in these species, may be readily terminated by application of a generalized neural excitation. Plasma FSH, PRL, GH, and cortisol concentrations were also monitored during the course of some of these experiments, and release of each of these four hormones was observed after the iv injection of NMA (15 mg/kg BW).


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