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Specific, sensitive and direct radioimmunoassays have been used to determine the daily patterns of 5-methoxytryptophol (ML) and melatonin in the pineal glands of Syrian hamsters kept in different photo-periods: 8 h light: 16 h darkness (8L:16D), 14L: 10D and 16L: 8D. A rhythm in pineal ML was evident in animals in all the photoperiods, with high daytime levels (641±35 (s.e.m.) fmol/gland; n=162) which dropped to 119±16 fmol/gland (n = 44) 7·1– 7·5 h after lights out. The duration of low night-time ML levels was proportional to the length of the dark phase (1·2 h in 16L:8D, 5·4 h in 14L: 10D and 8·4 h in 8L: 16D). A marked daily rhythm in melatonin was also present in hamsters in the different photoperiods, with daytime levels of 323 ± 34 fmol/gland (n = 129) and night-time peak concentrations of 3676 ± 336 fmol/gland (n = 22). The duration of high nocturnal melatonin levels was dependent upon the length of the dark phase (4·1 h in 16L: 8D, 4·5 h in 14L: 10D and 12·5 h in 8L: 16D). Linear regression analysis revealed a statistically significant inverse relationship between pineal ML and melatonin levels in 8L: 16D (P< 0·001), 14L: 10D normal (P<0·05) and 14L: 10D shifted (P<0·001) photoperiods. After advancing the lighting schedule by 10 h (14L: 10D, lights off at 04.00 h), pineal ML and melatonin rhythms became entrained to the new lighting regimen.
The daily rhythms in pineal ML and melatonin in the Syrian hamster thus depend on the prevailing photoperiod, a reciprocal relationship existing between pineal ML and melatonin concentrations.
J. Endocr. (1987) 114, 301–309
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Daily injections of 10 μg melatonin in the late afternoon into male golden hamsters kept under a long photoperiod (14 h light: 10 h darkness) and at low ambient temperature 6 ± 1 °C) induced a complete gonadal atrophy after 4 weeks. When administered under the same conditions at doses of 25 μg, neither N-(3,5-dinitrophenyl)-5-methoxytryptamine or N-(2,4-dinitrophenyl)-5-methoxytryptamine, a putative melatonin antagonist termed ML-23 in the literature, showed any effect on testicular activity. Moreover, these two drugs were also unable to prevent melatonin-induced gonadal atrophy when injected 30 min before melatonin.
The results demonstrate that in the golden hamster and in the present experimental conditions, these drugs do not have the melatonin-antagonistic properties as described in the rat.
Journal of Endocrinology (1989) 123, 243–247
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Radioimmunoassay and high performance liquid chromatography were used to determine if the gonadal atrophy induced by late afternoon injections of 5-methoxytryptamine (5-MT) in golden hamsters kept under long photoperiod could be due to the acetylation of this compound into melatonin. An increase in plasma concentrations of melatonin (10–13 nmol/l) was detected 15 min after injection of 130 nmol 5-MT. An injection of 4·3 nmol melatonin generated a similar plasma concentration of melatonin. 5-MT (130 nmol) and melatonin (4·3 nmol) were then injected daily in the late afternoon to golden hamsters kept under long photoperiod. After 8 weeks, 5-MT induced total testicular regression, while melatonin induced partial atrophy only. Thus under these experimental conditions, 5-MT had a physiological activity independent of that of melatonin.
Journal of Endocrinology (1989) 121, 507–512
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The demonstration of vasotocin in the mammalian pineal gland, subcommissural organ and fetal pituitary gland by bioassay has led to hypotheses regarding the function of this hormone in various reproductive processes.
Preliminary examinations of the pineal gland and subcommissural organ with a specific radioimmunoassay failed to show vasotocin immunoreactivity. The presence of vasotocin, vasopressin and oxytocin in the pineal gland, subcommissural organ and fetal neurohypophysis was therefore investigated, using three specific radioimmunoassays. Frog and chicken pituitary glands were used to validate the vasotocin radioimmunoassay.
Direct measurements in diluted homogenates of pituitary glands from frogs, chickens, mid-term fetal sheep and near-term fetal seals revealed the presence of vasotocin only in the frog and chicken pituitary glands, while vasopressin and oxytocin were found in the two fetal pituitary homogenates.
Vasopressin and oxytocin were measured in homogenates of rat and bovine pineal glands and in preparations of the subcommissural organ of rats and rabbits after extraction with Vycor glass powder, but no specific vasotocin immunoreactivity was observed. These results indicate a discrepancy between the reported biological activity of vasotocin in the pineal gland, subcommissural organ and fetal pituitary gland and the immunoreactivity of this material, which can at present only be explained by the presence of a peptide which is structurally closely related to, but not identical with, vasotocin.
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5-Methoxytryptamine is a potent agonist of presynaptic 5-hydroxytryptamine autoreceptors modulating serotonin release in the central nervous system. This methoxyindole can be synthesized in the pineal gland, but its presence in vivo is still controversial, probably because of rapid catabolism by monoamine oxidase. An improved high-pressure liquid chromatography method, with coulometric detection, has been developed for the simultaneous measurement of melatonin, 5-methoxytryptamine, 5-methoxytryptophol and 5-methoxyindolacetic acid. We have demonstrated a day–night rhythmicity in the amount of 5-methoxytryptamine in the pineal gland of golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) maintained under a long photoperiod (14 h light: 10 h darkness) and pretreated with the monoamine oxidase inhibitor pargyline. Levels of 5-methoxytryptamine were highest at 16.30 h and lowest at 00.30 h. The rhythm for 5-methoxytryptamine appears to be the same as for serotonin (opposite in phase to that of melatonin). The identification of 5-methoxytryptamine has been confirmed by analysis with gas chromatography–mass spectrometry.
J. Endocr. (1988) 118, 389–397
