Evidence for paracrine interaction between gonadotrophs and lactotrophs in pituitary cell aggregates

Endocrinology
C Denef, M Andries

Abstract

Pituitary cell aggregates prepared from 14-day-old male or female rats and maintained for 4-5 days in culture were superfused with LHRH during periods of 20 or 90 min. LHRH provoked a rapid and sustained rise of PRL release at concentrations similar to those stimulating LH release (10(-11)-10(-8) M). Dopamine, at a concentration inhibiting PRL release for 90%, weakened but did not prevent this stimulation. LHRH also stimulated PRL release in aggregates prepared from adult male rat pituitary cells, but the effect was weaker and seen only after a more prolonged period in culture. There was no PRL response to LHRH in aggregates of lactotroph-enriched populations, obtained by gradient sedimentation at unit gravity, in which only few and small gonadotrophs are present. When a lactotroph-enriched/gonadotroph-poor population was coaggregated with a highly enriched population of large gonadotrophs, LHRH very effectively stimulated PRL release, the extent of stimulation being dependent on the proportional number of gonadotrophs in the coculture. Superfusion of lactotroph-enriched/gonadotroph-poor aggregates with medium in which the gonadotroph-enriched aggregates had previously been incubated for 3 h with 1 nM LHRH (gonadotroph-conditio...Continue Reading

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