Effects of Nourishing “Yin”-Removing “Fire” Chinese Herb Mixture on the Differential Expression of GABA<sub>A</sub> Receptor <i>α</i> Subunits in Hypothalamus of Precocious Puberty Female Rats — Oak Academic Publishing
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Effects of Nourishing “Yin”-Removing “Fire” Chinese Herb Mixture on the Differential Expression of GABA<sub>A</sub> Receptor <i>α</i> Subunits in Hypothalamus of Precocious Puberty Female Rats
Department of Integrative Medicine and Neurobiology, Institute of Acupuncture Research, Institutes of Brain Science, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Department of Integrative Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Department of Integrative Medicine and Neurobiology, Institute of Acupuncture Research, Institutes of Brain Science, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Department of Integrative Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Department of Integrative Medicine and Neurobiology, Institute of Acupuncture Research, Institutes of Brain Science, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
1 Department of Integrative Medicine and Neurobiology, Institute of Acupuncture Research, Institutes of Brain Science, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
2 Department of Integrative Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
3 Department of Integrative Medicine and Neurobiology, Institute of Acupuncture Research, Institutes of Brain Science, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
4 Department of Integrative Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
5 Department of Integrative Medicine and Neurobiology, Institute of Acupuncture Research, Institutes of Brain Science, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
GABAergic input to Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons is necessary to initiate the onset of puberty and its action mainly depends on GABA A receptor of which the subunit composition, properties and consequently function varies during this period. Nourishing “Yin”-Removing “Fire” Chinese herb mixture, a Chinese herb-based formulation, has been proved that it may retard the initiation of pubertal development in female precocious puberty rats. Our object ive is to investigate the effects of Nourishing “Yin”-Removing “Fire” Chinese herb mixture on the expression of GABA A receptor α subunits in hypothalamus. Female Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into normal (N), precocious puberty model (M) induced by danazol, model exposed to saline (MS) and model exposed to Chinese herb mixture (CHM) groups. All rats were administered by the Chinese herb mixture from P15 on. Coefficients of reproductive or gans and serum gonadotropins and estradiol levels in M were significantly enhanced while they were significantly de creased in CHM. The hypothalamic GnRH mRNA was also significantly increased in M and in CHM, as well as ER α mRNA. At the mean time, the hypothalamic GABA A receptor α 1 and α 3 subunits mRNA were more significantly de creased in M than those of N, while they were more significantly enhanced in CHM than those in M (p < 0.01), the pro tein expression of which in hypothalamus had the same trend as the mRNA expression. The evidence suggests that Nourishing “Yin”-Removing “Fire” Chinese herb mixture could significantly retard the sexual development of the pre cocious rats, and up-regulate the expressions of hypothalamic GABA A receptor α 1 and α 3 subunits. Our result indicated that GABA A receptor α 1 and α 3 subunits might involve in the effective treatment of herb mixture on idiopathic preco cious puberty.
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