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  • Title: Vasoactive intestinal peptide stimulates luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone release from median eminence synaptosomes.
    Author: Samson WK, Burton KP, Reeves JP, McCann SM.
    Journal: Regul Pept; 1981 Aug; 2(4):253-64. PubMed ID: 7025113.
    Abstract:
    Third ventricular injections of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) result in increased circulating levels of luteinizing hormone (LH) in conscious, freely moving, ovariectomized (OVX) rats. This effect of VIP has been hypothesized to be mediated via stimulation of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) secretion from hypothalamic neurons since VIP is incapable of stimulating LH release from rat pituitaries in vitro. To test this hypothesis, crude synaptosomes were prepared from OVX rat median eminence (ME) tissue. Release of LH-RH from these preparations displayed time and temperature dependencies. Additionally, depolarization-induced (elevated K+) LH-RH release was demonstrated to be Ca2+-dependent. VIP, in doses ranging from 1.5 x 10(-7) to 1.5 x 10(-9) M, was capable of stimulating significantly greater LH-RH release from ME synaptosomes than that from control preparations. VIP's close structural homolog, glucagon, was incapable at the same doses of stimulating increased LH-RH release. These findings offer an explanation for the effect of third ventricularly injected VIP on LH release and suggest a modulatory role for VIP in the hypothalamic control of LH secretion.
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