Positive feedback control by the gonads on gonadotropin (GTH) and gonadoliberin (GnRH) levels in experimentally matured female silver eels,Anguilla anguilla |
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Authors: | Sylvie Dufour Nadine Le Belle Sylvie Baloche Yves-Alain Fontaine |
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Institution: | (1) Laboratoire de Physiologie Générale et Comparée, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, -7 Rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France |
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Abstract: | Treatment of sham-operated female silver eels with carp pituitary extract stimulated ovarian development and induced increases
in pituitary gonadotropin (GTH) and gonadoliberin (GnRH) contents. Both effects of carp pituitary extract were abolished in
ovariectomized eels, indicating the involvement of the gonads. Endogenous sexual steroids, the secretion of which was increased
during sexual maturation, should be responsible for the stimulation of GTH and GnRH levels. Ovariectomy itself had no significant
effect on pituitary GTH and GnRH contents, reflecting the fact that, at the silver stage, sexual steroid levels are too low
to exert any significant effect on pituitary GTH and GnRH. The positive feedback control exerted by the gonads on GTH and
GnRH levels during sexual maturation, in the eel as well as in some other teleosts, would produce an amplification of the
pubertal stimulation of the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal axis. |
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Keywords: | fish reproduction neuroendocrinology Anguilla sexual maturation feedback gonadoliberin gonadotropin castration |
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