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  • Title: In vitro release of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) from rat mediobasal hypothalamus: effects of potassium, calcium and dopamine.
    Author: Rotsztejn WH, Charli JL, Pattou E, Epelbaum J, Kordon C.
    Journal: Endocrinology; 1976 Dec; 99(6):1663-6. PubMed ID: 793839.
    Abstract:
    A suitable preparation to study the effect of dopamine (DA) on in vitro LHRH secretion is presented. Enzymatic degradation of LHRH in the incubation medium is completely inhibited by bacitracin (2 X 10(-5) M). Ahigh potassium concentration (56mM) induces an increase in LHRH release from entire pieces of mediobasal hypothalamus (MBH), but not from a synaptosomal pellet; this release is inhibited when calcium is omitted. The depolarization-induced LHRH in the MBH. In contrast, DA (10(-6)M) is not effective in vitro on MBH from ovariectomized rats but induces a fast release of LHRH from MBH of normal male and estradiol-pretreated ovariectomized rats. The preparation presented here appears to be of great interest in investigating amine-steroid-LHRH interactions at the cellular level.
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