The role of prolactin and growth hormone in the regulation of casein gene expression and mammary cell survival: relationships to milk synthesis and secretion

Endocrinology
M T TraversDavid J Flint

Abstract

We have compared involution of the rat mammary gland, induced by litter removal, where milk accumulation occurs, with involution induced in the presence of the suckling young by combined PRL and GH deficiency. Both treatments induced involutionary processes involving apoptosis, as judged by DNA ladders and resulted in significant decreases in the DNA content of the gland. Surprisingly, the effects of hormone deprivation on protein output in milk were principally explained by the loss of secretory cells, as there were only modest decreases in casein messenger RNA (mRNA) expression and protein synthesis rates per U DNA in vitro. The association of casein mRNA with the polysome fraction was also unaffected by hormone deprivation, whereas involution induced by litter removal resulted in much greater decreases in steady state levels of casein mRNA and an increased association of the mRNAs with the monosome fraction. In PRL- and GH-deficient rats, PRL treatment could prevent all of these effects, GH was partially effective, whereas putative mediators of GH action, insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I), IGF-II, and IGF-binding protein-3, were ineffective. This lack of effect of IGFs may be due to an inhibitory IGFBP, which we demonstra...Continue Reading

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