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Gréco, B. et al.

Gréco, Lubbers, Blaustein,

Estrogen receptor beta messenger ribonucleic acid expression in the forebrain of proestrous, pregnant, and lactating female rats.

Estrogen receptor (ER)beta is present in hypothalamic and limbic neurons of female rat brains, but little is known about its regulation under physiological conditions. To determine whether ER beta expression varies during physiological conditions in which sex steroid hormone profiles are significantly different, we used in situ hybridization to assess ER beta mRNA expression in the periventricular preoptic area, bed nucleus of stria terminalis, paraventricular nucleus, supraoptic nucleus, and the posterodorsal medial amygdala of female rats on proestrus, on d 22 of pregnancy, or on d 10 of lactation (L10). In the periventricular preoptic area, d-22 pregnant females had fewer ER beta-mRNA-expressing cells than did females at proestrus, but the level of ER beta mRNA expression per cell in pregnant females was higher than in the two other groups. In the paraventricular nucleus, no changes in ER beta mRNA expression were observed; whereas in the supraoptic nucleus, proestrous females had fewer ER beta-mRNA-expressing cells than L10 females. In the posterodorsal medial amygdala, proestrous females had a greater number of ER beta-mRNA-expressing cells than did L10 females. These results demonstrate that ER beta mRNA expression is differentially regulated in a brain-region-specific and temporal manner under physiological conditions and suggest that ER beta may participate in the regulation of estrogen-sensitive reproductive functions in female rats.[1]

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Estrogen receptor beta messenger ribonucleic acid expression in the forebrain of proestrous, pregnant, and lactating female rats. Gréco, B., Lubbers, L.S., Blaustein, J.D. Endocrinology (2003) [Pubmed]

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