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Effects of maternal deprivation on the somatotrophic axis and neuropeptide Y in the hypothalamus and pituitary in female lambs. The histomorphometric study.

Jolanta Polkowska, Marta Wańkowska
DOI: 10.2478/v10042-010-0024-0
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Folia Histochem Cytobiol 2010;48(2):299-305.

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The effects of maternal deprivation on the somatotrophic axis and neuropeptide Y (NPY) neuronal system in the hypothalamus of female lambs were evaluated. Twelve-week-old lambs were divided into two groups: the control (lambs stayed with mothers) and maternally deprived (MD; lambs separated for 3 days from mothers). The expression of immunoreactive (ir) somatostatin in the neurons of the periventricular nucleus (PEV) and in nerve terminals of the median eminence (ME), growth hormone (GH) in the adenohypophyseal cells and NPY in the neurons of the PEV and arcuate (ARC) nuclei of the hypothalamus using immunohistochemistry followed by the image analysis were estimated. Concentrations of GH in the blood plasma were determined by radioimmunoassay. The expression of ir somatostatin in the PEV and ME, ir NPY in the ARC and PEV, ir GH in adenohypophyseal cells, and blood plasma GH concentrations were greater (p<0.05) in MD than in the control lambs. In conclusion, MD affects the somatotrophic axis by enhancement of GH secretion via restraining of somatostatin output. The simultaneous increase of expression of hypothalamic ir NPY suggests NPY involvement in the regulation of psychoemotional stress through the somatotrophic axis in the female lambs.

Abstract

The effects of maternal deprivation on the somatotrophic axis and neuropeptide Y (NPY) neuronal system in the hypothalamus of female lambs were evaluated. Twelve-week-old lambs were divided into two groups: the control (lambs stayed with mothers) and maternally deprived (MD; lambs separated for 3 days from mothers). The expression of immunoreactive (ir) somatostatin in the neurons of the periventricular nucleus (PEV) and in nerve terminals of the median eminence (ME), growth hormone (GH) in the adenohypophyseal cells and NPY in the neurons of the PEV and arcuate (ARC) nuclei of the hypothalamus using immunohistochemistry followed by the image analysis were estimated. Concentrations of GH in the blood plasma were determined by radioimmunoassay. The expression of ir somatostatin in the PEV and ME, ir NPY in the ARC and PEV, ir GH in adenohypophyseal cells, and blood plasma GH concentrations were greater (p<0.05) in MD than in the control lambs. In conclusion, MD affects the somatotrophic axis by enhancement of GH secretion via restraining of somatostatin output. The simultaneous increase of expression of hypothalamic ir NPY suggests NPY involvement in the regulation of psychoemotional stress through the somatotrophic axis in the female lambs.
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Effects of maternal deprivation on the somatotrophic axis and neuropeptide Y in the hypothalamus and pituitary in female lambs. The histomorphometric study.

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Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica

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Vol 48, No 2 (2010)

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Original paper

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299-305

Published online

2010-08-03

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DOI

10.2478/v10042-010-0024-0

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Folia Histochem Cytobiol 2010;48(2):299-305.

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Jolanta Polkowska
Marta Wańkowska

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