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- E K Polston, G Gu, and R B Simerly.
- Division of Neuroscience, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, 97006, Beaverton, OR, USA.
- Neuroscience. 2004 Jan 1; 123 (3): 793-803.
AbstractNeurons of the principal nucleus of the bed nuclei of the stria terminalis (BSTp) process pheromonal and viscerosensory stimuli associated with reproduction and relay this information to preoptic and hypothalamic cell groups that regulate reproductive function. The anteroventral periventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (AVPV), a nucleus involved in the regulation of gonadotropin secretory patterns, receives dense projections from BSTp neurons in males but not in females. By injecting the anterograde tracer, Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin (PHAL), into the BSTp of rats and immunohistochemically colocalizing the GABA synthetic enzyme, GAD65, to PHAL-immunoreactive fibers in the AVPV, we tested the hypothesis that these sex-specific projections arise from BSTp neurons that synthesize the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA. Although dense GAD65-immunoreactive fiber terminals were observed in both the male and female AVPV, higher numbers of GAD65-labeled terminals were found in the male, and those localized to PHAL-immunoreactive fibers were seen almost exclusively in males. Treatment of newborn females with testosterone or neonatal orchidectomy of males reversed these sex differences, while GAD65-immunoreactivity in the AVPV was not altered in response to exogenous hormone treatments administered to peripubertal animals. Our results suggest that projections from BSTp neurons constitute a stable, sex-specific GABAergic input to the AVPV that is patterned permanently by perinatal hormone exposure.
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