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Effect of Estrogen Agonists and Antagonists on Induction of Progesterone Receptor in a Rat Hypothalamic Cell Line

Women’s Health Research Institute, Wyeth-Ayerst Research, Radnor, Pennsylvania 19087

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Dr. Susan L. Fitzpatrick, Women’s Health Research Institute, Wyeth-Ayerst Research, 145 King of Prussia Road, Radnor, Pennsylvania 19087. E-mail: fitzpas2{at}war.wyeth.com

Estrogen is essential in the hypothalamus for the central regulation of reproduction. To understand the molecular mechanism(s) of estrogen action in the hypothalamus, immortalized rat embryonic hypothalamic cell lines were characterized for steroid receptors and subcloned. Scatchard analysis of the D12 subclone demonstrated one high affinity estrogen receptor-binding site (K_d = 31.3 ± 1.9 pM) with a B_max of 30.8 ± 0.8 fmol/mg. Estrogen receptor- protein was identified by Western blot and gel shift analyses. Treatment with estradiol (48 h) stimulated progesterone receptor (PR) messenger RNA expression and binding to [³H]R5020, a synthetic progestin. Because the agonist or antagonist activity of estrogen mimetics can be cell type dependent, the activities of various estrogen mimetics were determined in D12 cells. ICI 182,780 (IC₅₀ = 0.63 nM), raloxifene (IC₅₀ = 1 nM), enclomiphene (IC₅₀ = 77 nM), and tamoxifen (IC₅₀ = 174 nM) inhibited the induction of PR by estradiol, and none of these compounds significantly stimulated PR when given alone. In contrast, 17-ethynyl estradiol (EC₅₀ = 0.014 nM), zuclomiphene (EC₅₀ = 100 nM), and genistein (EC₅₀ = 17.5 nM) functioned as estrogen agonists in these cells. In addition, the estrogen-induced progesterone receptor activated a progesterone response element reporter construct in response to progestins. Thus, the D12 rat hypothalamic cell line provides a useful model for characterizing tissue-selective estrogenic compounds, identifying estrogen- and progesterone-regulated hypothalamic genes, and understanding the molecular mechanisms of steroid action in various physiological processes mediated by the hypothalamus.

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