Reduced aminergic synthesis in the hypothalamus of the infertile, genetically diabetic (C57BL/KsJ-db/db) male mouse

Experimental Brain Research
T S King, D H Rohrbach

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is commonly associated with reproductive neuroendocrinopathy in both humans and animal models for the disease. Diabetes-associated reproductive failure in the male is a result of multilevel dysfunction within the hypothalamo-pituitary-testicular axis. In view of the known effects of diabetes on hypothalamic gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and gonadotropins in chemically-induced animal models for diabetes, we examined hypothalamic aminergic activities (important to the regulation of GnRH release), circulating gonadotropin levels and testicular morphology in the infertile, genetically diabetic (C57BL/KsJ-db/db) male mouse. Groups of 2-5 month old (average age: 3.4 months) and 6-11 month old (average age: 8.8 months) diabetic mice were compared with age-matched non-diabetic (C57BL/KsL(-)+/?) male mice. Diabetic mice in both age groups were markedly obese and hyperglycemic. Hypothalamic serotonin synthesis was inhibited in the preoptic area-anterior hypothalamus (POA-AH) in both 2-5 month old and 6-11 month old diabetic mice as well as in the mediobasal hypothalamus-median eminence (MBH-ME) of 6-11 month old diabetic mice. Catecholamine synthesis (norepinephrine and dopamine) was reduced in the POA-AH of 2-5...Continue Reading

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