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Differential Localization of Estrogen Receptors in Various Vasopressin Synthesizing Nuclei of the Rat Brain

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Axelson, John F., van Leeuwen, Fred W.·1990·Journal of Neuroendocrinology

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Vasopressin (VP) cells in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, medial amygdaloid nucleus and supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei are influenced by gonadal steroids. The present paper examined whether VP cells in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, medial amygdaloid nucleus, and supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei contain estrogen receptors. Brains from adult short‐term castrated, colchicine‐treated male rats were fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde and 0.5% glutaraldehyde. In the immunocytochemical double‐staining procedure Vibratome sections were first incubated with an estrogen receptor antibody (#H222) and stained with diaminobenzidine‐Ni+. Following methanol‐hydrogen peroxide washes, sections were incubated with anti‐neurophysin and stained with diaminobenzidine. Parvocellular cells in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and medial amygdaloid nucleus were double‐stained with a blue‐black nucleus (indicating the estrogen receptors) surrounded by brown cytoplasm (resulting from VP‐neurophysin‐immunoreactivity). Our results provide the first direct anatomical evidence supporting the hypothesis that gonadal steroids' influence of parvocellular VP cells in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and medial amygdaloid nucleus is mediated directly via estrogen receptors localized in nuclei of VP neurons. We were unable to co‐localize any estrogen receptors in VP and oxytocin cells of magnocellular size in the supraoptic, paraventricular and anterior commissural nuclei, suggesting that estrogen indirectly affects these magnocellular hypothalamic cells.

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  • Virtually all AVP-producing cells in the BST are immunoreactive for androgen and estrogen receptors.

    “since virtually all them are immunoreactive for androgen and estrogen receptors (Axelson and Van Leeuwen, 1990;Zhou et al., 1993).”

    From Sex differences in the effects of testosterone and its metabolites on vasopressin messenger RNA levels in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis of rats (1994) · cites this paper as Axelson and Van Leeuwen, 1990

    The Double-staining of ER and VP-NP section (page unavailable) reports estrogen-receptor staining in parvocellular VP cells of the BST and says no VP-NP-positive cells without that staining were seen there. The paper does not report androgen-receptor immunoreactivity in those cells, so it supports only the estrogen-receptor part of the claim. (LLM, conf=0.89)

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  1. Van Leeuwen FW. (1987). Immunocytochemical techniques in peptide localization, possibilities and pitfalls. In: Boulton AA, Baker GB and Pittman QG, eds. Neuromethods, vol. 6. Peptides, 73-111. Humana Press, Clifton, New Jersey.
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Authors
Axelson, J. F., & van Leeuwen, F. W.
Affiliations
College of the Holy Cross (US)
Venue
Journal of Neuroendocrinology
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1990-04
Volume
2
Issue
2
Pages
209-216
ISSN
  • 0953-8194 (ISSN-L)
  • 1365-2826
OpenAlex
W2069085535
Cited by
133
References
42
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2013: 1
FWCI
27.17
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Neuroendocrinology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Jan Dekker Stichting
  • National Institutes of Health (5r01am016166-12)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Estrogen and related hormone effects
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Reproductive Medicine › Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones
Keywords
estrogen receptor, vasopressin neurons, bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, medial amygdala, supraoptic nucleus, paraventricular nucleus, neurophysin, parvocellular neurons, magnocellular neurons, oxytocin, hypothalamus, castration, colchicine

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