Developmental and hormonal regulation of glucocorticoid receptor messenger RNA in the rat.
AUTOR(ES)
Kalinyak, J E
RESUMO
The biological action of glucocorticoids is dependent upon tissue-specific levels of the glucocorticoid receptor (GR). During stress, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis is stimulated, and high levels of glucocorticoids circulate. This axis is modulated by negative feedback by glucocorticoids, which inhibit hypothalamic and pituitary hormone secretion and downregulate GR gene expression. To study the developmental tissue-specific regulation of the GR, we measured the relative concentration of GR mRNA in fetal, neonatal, adult, and aged rats and examined the effects of dexamethasone on GR gene expression. Three different tissue-specific developmental patterns of GR mRNA accumulation were found. In addition, there was an age-dependent tissue-specific pattern in the feedback regulation of GR mRNA by glucocorticoids. In the fetus and neonate, GR mRNA abundance was not regulated by circulating glucocorticoids. The adult pattern of glucocorticoid feedback inhibition of GR mRNA expression appeared between 2 and 7 d of life in liver, and after 7 but before 14 d of age in brain. The GR was biologically active in the 2-d-old neonate, however, since dexamethasone enhanced gene expression of angiotensinogen, which is another glucocorticoid responsive gene. These data demonstrate that the GR gene is regulated by both developmental and tissue-specific factors, and provide another molecular basis for ontogenic variations in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal response to stress.
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