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Journal of Andrology, Vol 15, Issue 6 521-527, Copyright © 1994 by The American Society of Andrology

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Significant role of 5 alpha-reductase on feedback effects of androgen in rat anterior pituitary cells demonstrated with a nonsteroidal 5 alpha-reductase inhibitor ONO-3805

A. Nagamoto, K. Noguchi, T. Murai and Y. Kinoshita
Department of Urology, Yokohama City University, School of Medicine, Japan.

A 5 alpha-reductase inhibitor with nonsteroidal structure, ONO-3805, has been used to study the role of 5 alpha-reductase on positive and negative feedback effects of androgen on gonadotropin secretion in the rat anterior pituitary gland. Initially, the potential of ONO-3805 to inhibit the formation of 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) was evaluated. The activity of 5 alpha-reductase in rat anterior pituitary gland was approximately one-fourth of that in rat prostate gland or epididymis, with a Michaelis' constant (Km) value for testosterone of 5-6 x 10(-7) M. When homogenates of rat anterior pituitary glands were incubated with 14C-testosterone (14C-T) in the presence of > or = 10(-7) M ONO-3805, the formation of labeled DHT and its metabolite 5 alpha-androstane-3 alpha,17 beta-diol was inhibited by > 90%. The inhibition pattern was non-competitive, and the inhibition constant (Ki value) derived from Lineweaver-Burk plots was 3.9 x 10(-11) M. Dispersed pituitary cells (1-2 x 10(5)/ml) were cultured for 48 hours and then further incubated with or without androgen and/or the inhibitor for 72 hours (basal secretion). After this incubation, the media were saved, and 10 nM of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) with the same concentration of androgen and/or the inhibitor as used in the 72-hour incubation was added to the cultures for 6 hours (LH-RH-induced secretion). Secreted follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) were assayed by radioimmunoassay (RIA). Both testosterone (T) and DHT stimulated 72-hour basal FSH secretion from cultured pituitary cells in a dose-dependent fashion.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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