Steroid 5α-Reductase in Adult Rat Brain After Neonatal Dihydrotestosterone Administration
| Autor: | J. de Dios Luna, Jesús M. Torres, R. G. Del Moral, Pilar Sánchez, Esperanza Ortega, Beatriz Castro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Sex Differentiation medicine.drug_class Period (gene) Central nervous system Biology Biochemistry Isozyme Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 3-Oxo-5-alpha-Steroid 4-Dehydrogenase Internal medicine medicine Animals Rats Wistar Prefrontal cortex Testosterone Sexual differentiation Brain Dihydrotestosterone General Medicine Androgen Rats Isoenzymes Endocrinology medicine.anatomical_structure Animals Newborn Female medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Neurochemical Research. 38:557-563 |
| ISSN: | 1573-6903 0364-3190 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11064-012-0948-1 |
| Popis: | Testosterone (T) is known to play an important masculinizing role in the developing brain of rat, including the regulation of 5α-reductase (5α-R) isozymes. However, the effects of dihydrotesterone (DHT), a more potent androgen than T, have not been elucidated. In this study, DHT was administered from day 5 through day 20 of postnatal life (period of postnatal sexual differentiation of the central nervous system) at doses of: 12 mg/kg/d on days 5, 6, 7, 8, 19, and 20; 15 mg/kg/d on days 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, and 18; and 18 mg/kg/d on days 13, 14, and 15. In adulthood, quantitative RT-PCR was used to measure mRNA levels of 5α-R1 and 5α-R2 isozymes in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of male and female rats with varied androgenic status. Under our study conditions, neonatal DHT administration influenced on adult PFC 5α-R isozymes levels and their regulation pattern by androgens, and this pattern was the inverse of that reported in adult neonatally T-treated rats. |
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