A role for Src kinase in progestin facilitation of estrous behavior in estradiol-primed female rats |
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Authors: | Oscar González-Flores Carlos Beyer Marcos García-Juárez Alfonso Soto-Sánchez |
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Institution: | a Centro de Investigación en Reproducción Animal, Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala-CINVESTAV. Apdo. 62, Tlaxcala, México b D.P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience F113, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA |
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Abstract: | This study tested the hypothesis that the Src/Raf/MAPK signaling pathway is involved in the facilitation of the lordosis and proceptive behaviors induced by progesterone (P) and its ring A-reduced metabolites in ovariectomized, estradiol-primed rats. Intraventricular (icv) infusion of PP2 (7.5, 15 and 30 µg), a Src kinase inhibitor, significantly depressed P-dependent estrous behavior (lordosis and proceptivity) in estradiol-primed rats. Icv infusion of 30 µg of PP2 also significantly attenuated estrous behavior induced by the ring A-reduced P metabolites 5α-dihydroprogesterone (5α-DHP) and 5α-pregnan-3α-ol-20-one (allopregnanolone). PP2 did not inhibit estrous behavior induced by administration of high doses of estradiol alone to ovariectomized rats. We also assessed if the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) is one of the neural sites at which progestins activate Src signaling to facilitate estrous behavior. Bilateral administration of 15 µg of PP2 into the VMH inhibited the stimulation of both lordosis and proceptive behaviors elicited by subcutaneous P administration to estradiol-primed rats. These results suggest that progestins act through Src/Raf/MAPK signaling to initiate estrous behaviors in estrogen-primed rats. This event is one component of the cellular pathways leading to the display of estrous behaviors induced by P and its ring A-reduced metabolites in female rats. |
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Keywords: | Estradiol Lordosis behavior MAPK PP2 Progesterone 5α-dihydroprogesterone 5α-pregnan 3α-20-dione Progesterone metabolism Src kinase |
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