Endocrinology, Vol 122, 586-591, Copyright © 1988 by Endocrine Society

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The effect of hypophysectomy and growth hormone administration on pre- prosomatostatin messenger ribonucleic acid in the periventricular nucleus of the rat hypothalamus

KV Rogers, L Vician, RA Steiner and DK Clifton
Department of Physiology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195.

Physiological evidence suggests that hypothalamic somatostatin (SS) inhibits pituitary GH release and that GH acts through a short-loop feedback mechanism to stimulate SS secretion. The feedback action of GH could be mediated by an effect on SS synthesis, secretion, or both. We hypothesized that GH acts to regulate the expression of the SS gene and that changes in the level of circulating GH would result in corresponding changes in SS mRNA in cells of the periventricular nucleus (PeN) of the hypothalamus. To test this hypothesis we measured the effect of hypophysectomy (HPX) and HPX with bovine GH (bGH) replacement on SS mRNA signal levels in cells of the PeN of the rat brain. We report that HPX male rats treated with bGH have significantly higher PeN SS mRNA signal than their vehicle-treated controls (P less than 0.05) and that bGH administration to sham-HPX rats results in elevated PeN SS mRNA signal levels compared to those in sham-HPX rats treated with vehicle (P less than 0.05). These observations suggest that GH participates in the regulation of its own secretion by influencing the expression of the SS gene and that one mechanism of short-loop pituitary feedback may involve the modulation of neuropeptide gene expression.

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