Variations in the adenohipophysis of the expression on proliferation cellular nuclear antigen, estrogen and androgen receptor in relation to gonadal steroids during pregnancy of viscachas (Lagostomus maximus maximus)

GABRIELA JUDITH ROSALES, EDITH PEREZ, GRACIELA RODRIGUEZ, VERÓNICA PALMIRA FILIPPA AND FABIAN HEBER MOHAMED.; EDITH PÉREZ; GRACIELA RODRÍGUEZ; VERÓNICA FILIPPA; FABIÁN MOHAMED

REPRODUCTION FERTILITY AND DEVELOPMENT

CSIRO PUBLISHING

Año: 2019 vol. 31

1031-3613

Viscachas are native rodents of South America that present a long pregnancy of ~154 days. In this work, we analysed variations in the expression of proliferating cellular nuclear antigen, oestrogen and androgen receptors (ERα and AR) in pituitary pars distalis (PD) and pars tuberalis (PT) in relation to oestradiol and testosterone serum levels in non-pregnant and pregnant viscachas. In PD, cell proliferation increased with pregnancy and lactotrophs proliferated during mid-pregnancy (MP). ERα nuclear-immunoreactive cells (ERαn-ir) were maximal in late pregnancy and AR expression did not vary during pregnancy. In PT, cell proliferation and AR expression increased during pregnancy, but ERα expression was very scarce. The immunostaining pattern of receptors was different in PD and PT. The peak of serum oestradiol and testosterone occurred during MP. Our results suggest that cell proliferation and gonadal receptors might be differentially regulated in the pituitary by oestradiol and testosterone during viscacha pregnancy.