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  • Title: Luteinizing hormone-beta mRNA levels are regulated primarily by gonadotropin-releasing hormone and not by negative estrogen feedback on the pituitary.
    Author: Mercer JE, Clements JA, Funder JW, Clarke IJ.
    Journal: Neuroendocrinology; 1988 Jun; 47(6):563-6. PubMed ID: 3135509.
    Abstract:
    Long-term effects of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and/or estrogen on pituitary mRNA levels for the beta-subunit of luteinizing hormone (LH-beta) were determined in anterior pituitary glands from ovariectomized (OVX) ewes. The relative roles of these two factors were assessed by studying hypothalamopituitary disconnected (HPD) ewes with appropriate hormonal treatments. Levels of LH-beta mRNA were increased by ovariectomy and substantially reduced by HPD. Treatment of OVX-HPD ewes with pulses of GnRH (250 ng each 2 h) for 1 week restored LH-beta mRNA levels to OVX levels, whereas treatment with estrogen alone did not alter the low levels found in OVX-HPD ewes. Combined GnRH and estrogen treatment for one week produced LH-beta mRNA levels that were similar to those found in OVX-HPD ewes given GnRH alone; plasma LH pulse amplitudes were also similar in these two groups. From these data we conclude that the long-term negative feedback effect of estrogen to reduce LH secretion is due to a primary inhibition of GnRH secretion and is not a pituitary effect of estrogen. Long-term regulation of LH-beta mRNA is thus primarily regulated by GnRH.
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