Estradiol and progesterone influence a serotonin mediated behavioral syndrome (myoclonus) in female guinea pigs: comparison with steroid effects on reproductive behavior.

Autor: O'Connor LH, Feder HH
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Brain research [Brain Res] 1984 Feb 13; Vol. 293 (1), pp. 119-25.
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(84)91459-8
Abstrakt: L-5-hydroxytryptophan (L-5-HTP)-induced myoclonus was used as a behavioral index of central serotonergic activity. Estradiol benzoate (EB) and progesterone (P) influenced the induction of myoclonus by L-5-HTP. When L-5-HTP was injected 46 h after EB, myoclonus was enhanced. P blocked this effect on EB when 100 or 125 mg/kg L-5-HTP (but not 80 mg/kg) was given 6 h after P in EB-primed animals. When L-5-HTP was given 3 or 11-15 h after P in EB-primed animals, there was no inhibitory effect of P on myoclonus. In fact, at the lowest dose (80 mg/kg), L-5-HTP increased myoclonus when given 3 h after P in EB-primed animals. The inhibitory effects of P in EB-primed females on myoclonus were temporally correlated with the display of lordosis, suggesting that the neural progestin receptor mechanisms that have been proposed to mediate P effects on lordosis are also involved in the inhibitory effects of P on myoclonus.
Databáze: MEDLINE