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Mink anterior pituitaries were incubated in Medium 199 for up to 9 or 13 days. Biological activity of prolactin and GH was determined. Daily concentrations of prolactin and GH in the incubation medium were also measured by radioimmunoassay and radioreceptor assay. When females were kept under short days for several weeks before the experiment, a significant decrease in prolactin secretion by the anterior pituitary was observed as compared with that in females maintained under long days. In contrast, secretion of GH was not modified by the photoperiodic history of the animals. Pineal gland denervation by ablation of the superior cervical ganglia a few months before the experiment, or addition of melatonin to the incubation medium of anterior pituitaries from intact or ganglionectomized females, did not modify the secretion of prolactin and GH. The pituitary gland does not therefore seem to be a direct target site for melatonin in transducing the duration of daylength on the hypothalamo-pituitary axis.
J. Endocr. (1988) 119, 287–292
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We report the ability of sheep placental cotyledonary cells, isolated at different periods of pregnancy (40 to 90 days) to produce ovine chorionic somatomammotrophin (oCS) in in vitro culture conditions. This oCS production increased gradually with stage of pregnancy. Endogenous oCS net production by isolated placental cells was increased, in a dose-dependent manner, by addition of recombinant oCS (roCS). This effect was not observed after addition of recombinant ovine growth hormone. The roCS effect was more potent on cells collected during early pregnancy. Specific immunoprecipitation of oCS revealed that roCS treatment was associated with an increased dose-dependent incorporation of [35S]methionine-[35S]cysteine. These findings provide evidence that oCS may act in a paracrine/autocrine manner to up-regulate its own production during early gestation. We suggest that this autoregulation may be associated with morphological and functional differentiation of the trophoblast during the growth of the placenta.
