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Endocrinology, Vol 121, 182-189, Copyright © 1987 by Endocrine Society

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Isolated gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons harvested from adult male rats secrete biologically active neuropeptide in a regular repetitive manner

P Melrose, L Gross, I Cruse and M Rush

Immunochemical treatments for the recovery of viable GnRH neurons from adult male rats have previously been described by this laboratory. In the present report, efforts were made to limit cellular adhesion, as well as the proteolytic and mechanical damage which occurred during isolation of the neurons, in order to determine if such damage may account for failure of the isolated cells to exhibit spontaneous neuropeptide release. These modifications prevented the loss of assayable GnRH during the isolation process, and neurons recovered from individual rats in this study contained 10.7 +/- 2.5 ng GnRH. Further, all isolated neuronal preparations exhibited spontaneous peptide release which continued in a regular repetitive manner. When maintained in closed chambers, these preparations released 105 +/- 42 pg/ml biologically active GnRH at 18.9 +/- 0.4-min intervals. In contrast, GnRH release from heterologous preparations was characterized by erratic low level pulses. The results from this work suggest that independent neuroendocrine properties of GnRH neurons may be responsible for tonic gonadotropin secretion in castrated adult male rats and that the erratic patterns of gonadotropin release in gonadally intact males may be related, in part, to coupling between GnRH neurons and unidentified neuronal factors.


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