Effect of glutamate and somatostatin-14 on basal and cAMP-stimulated steroidogenesis by rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) ovarian follicles, in vitro |
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Authors: | Leatherland John F Lin Lucy Renaud Rick |
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Affiliation: | Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada, ON N1G 2W1 |
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Abstract: | The effects of glutamate and somatostatin-14 (SRIF) on the in vitro basal and cAMP-stimulated steroid production of mid-vitellogenic rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) ovarian follicles were investigated. cAMP-stimulation was achieved by the addition of the adenylyl cyclase activator, forskolin (FS), or a membrane permeate cAMP agonist, 8-bromo-cAMP (BA), to the incubation medium. Testosterone (T) and 17β-estradiol (E2) secretion was measured using radioimmunoassay. Solid phase extraction (SPE) was used to measure the relative formation of unconjugated and conjugated steroids, and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was used to examine the steroid metabolites formed from the metabolism of a tritium labelled precursor, pregnenolone (P5). The accumulations of T and E2 in the medium were suppressed in the presence of the glutamate agonists, N-methyl-d,l-aspartate (NMA) or l-glutamic acid (GA), and by the presence of SRIF. The suppression was evident for both basal and cAMP-stimulated steroidogenesis except for T concentrations of GA treatments following basal steroidogenesis, when there were no treatment effects. No significant effects of treatment on conjugated:unconjugated steroid ratios were found. For all treatments E2 was the major end product steroid synthesized from P5, and the steroid profiles were similar except for trace amounts of radiolabelled androgens in the medium following cAMP-stimulated steroidogenesis that were not present following basal steroidogenesis. The findings suggest that glutamate and SRIF reduce end point steroid production, possibly by reducing P5 production. However, since the inhibitory affect was found for basal and cAMP-stimulated steroidogenesis, the response does not appear to be due to the inhibition of cAMP synthesis. |
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Keywords: | Forskolin 8-Bromo-cAMP Testosterone 17-β Estradiol High performance liquid chromatography Conjugated steroids Unconjugated steroids N-Methyl-d,l-aspartate l-Glutamic acid Somatostatin-141 |
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