Abstract
The effect of acute and chronic ovariectomy and the substitutive treatment with 17-β estradiol and/or progesterone on anterior pituitary levels of neurokinin A (NKA) was studied in female rats. Acute ovariectomy did not result in significant changes of NKA in the anterior pituitary gland as compared with the levels in diestrous intact rats, but a single injection of 5 μg of estradiol in ovariectomized rats significantly decreased NKA levels in the anterior pituitary gland. Progesterone was without effect and did not modify the decrease of NKA in the anterior pituitary gland induced by estradiol. In rats examined 11 to 17 days after ovariectomy, NKA in the anterior pituitary gland was significantly higher than in diestrous intact rats. In the hypothalamus, ovariectomy resulted in decreased levels of NKA in the median eminence-arcuate nucleus. Estradiol significantly reduced NKA stores in the anterior pituitary gland but increased them in the whole hypothalamus and in the median eminence-arcuate nucleus. Thus, estradiol seems to be a powerful regulator of NKA stores in the adenohypophysis and also in the hypothalamus.
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