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Rat oxytocin receptor in brain, pituitary, mammary gland, and uterus: partial sequence and immunocytochemical localization.

Adan, R A, Van Leeuwen, F W, Sonnemans, M A, Brouns, M, Hoffman, G, Verbalis, J G, Burbach, J P·1995·Endocrinology

Abstract

Partial complementary DNAs of an oxytocin (OT) receptor were cloned from rat brain and uterus. The complementary DNAs encoded for the same amino acid sequence, which showed a high degree of homology with the human and porcine uterine OT receptors, except for a region in the third intracellular loop. Antibodies were raised against nonoverlapping sequences of the third intracellular loop of this rat OT receptor. Using these antisera, OT receptor expression was demonstrated in the brain, pituitary, mammary gland, and uterus by immunocytochemistry. In the brain, several areas including the ventromedial hypothalamus, the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, the ventral pallidum, the paraventricular nucleus, and the dorsal part of the supraoptic nucleus, demonstrated OT-receptor immunoreactivity. However, no immunoreactivity was detected in two areas of the brain known to contain dense OT-binding sites by receptor autoradiography studies: the ventral hippocampus and the central nucleus of the amygdala. In the pituitary, both the anterior and posterior lobes were positive for OT receptor immunoreactivity, whereas the intermediate lobe was negative. These results demonstrate that the same receptor type is expressed in both peripheral OT target tissues and the brain, and also suggest the possibility that a different OT receptor subtype may be present in some areas of the brain.

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  • In rodents, high concentrations of OXTR mRNA are found in the hypothalamus, amygdala, olfactory bulb, ventral pallidum, and dorsal vagal nucleus.

    “Seminal animal work using histochemistry and immunohistochemistry revealed high concentrations of OXTR mRNA in the hypothalamus, amygdala, olfactory bulb, ventral pallidum, and the dorsal vagal nucleus in rodents7,8.”

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Authors
Adan, R. A., Van Leeuwen, F. W., Sonnemans, M. A., Brouns, M., Hoffman, G., Verbalis, J. G., & Burbach, J. P.
Affiliations
Utrecht University (NL)
Venue
Endocrinology
Published
1995-09
Volume
136
Issue
9
Pages
4022-4028
ISSN
  • 0013-7227 (ISSN-L)
  • 1945-7170
OpenAlex
W1969541181
Cited by
147
References
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FWCI
13.50
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Endocrinology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • VU Research Portal (submittedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Reproductive Medicine › Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones
Keywords
oxytocin receptor, rats, cDNA cloning, third intracellular loop, receptor homology, immunocytochemical localization, brain, pituitary gland, mammary gland, uterus, hypothalamus, bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, paraventricular nucleus, supraoptic nucleus, receptor subtypes
MeSH terms
Amino Acid Sequence, Amygdalin, Animals, Base Sequence, Brain Chemistry, Female, Hippocampus, Immune Sera, Immunohistochemistry, Mammary Glands, Animal, Molecular Sequence Data, Oligonucleotides, Paraventricular Hypothalamic Nucleus, Pituitary Gland, Supraoptic Nucleus, Uterus, Ventromedial Hypothalamic Nucleus, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, Receptors, Oxytocin, DNA, Complementary, Rats

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