Postnatal regression of hypothalamic dopaminergic neurons in prolactin-deficient Snell dwarf mice

Endocrinology
C J Phelps

Abstract

Both Snell (Pit-1(dw) or (dwj), dw/dw) and Ames (Prophet of Pit-1(df), df/df) dwarf mice fail to produce prolactin (PRL) as well as GH due to deficient transcription factor Pit-1 activity and have reduced numbers of hypothalamic PRL-inhibiting area A12 tuberoinfundibular dopaminergic (TIDA) neurons. It has been reported that the TIDA deficit in Ames dwarf mice develops postnatally as a reduction in number after an initial increase that is comparable to that of normal siblings. The present study was designed to characterize A12 TIDA neuronal development in the Snell dwarf (dw/dw) compared with littermate normal mice. Brains of normal (DW/?) and dw(j)/dw(j) mice were examined at 7, 14, 21, 30, and > or = 60 postnatal days (d) by catecholamine fluorescence and quantification of neuron number after tyrosine hydroxylase immunostaining in dopaminergic (DA) areas A12, A13 (medial zona incerta), and A14 (periventricular nucleus). Fluorescence was less in dw/dw than in DW/? A12 perikarya and median eminence but was not reduced in other DA areas, such as substantia nigra, at all ages; A12 fluorescence was virtually absent in Snell dwarf adults. Numbers of TIDA neurons were comparable in normal and Snell dwarf mice at 7 d. In normal (DW/?...Continue Reading

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