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      Sex steroid modulation of the serotonin behavioral syndrome

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          Two distinct central serotonin receptors with different physiological functions.

          Two distinct serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine) receptors designated serotonin 1 and serotonin 2 bind tritium-labeled serotonin and tritium-labeled spiroperidol, respectively. Drug potencies at serotonin 2 sites, but not at serotonin 1 sites, predict their effects on the "serotonin behavioral syndrome," indicating that serotonin 2 sites mediate these behaviors. The limited correlation of drug effects with regulation by guanine nucleotides suggests that serotonin 1 sites might be linked to adenylate cyclase. Drug specificities of serotonin-elicited synaptic inhibition and excitation may reflect serotonin 1 and serotonin 2 receptor interactions, respectively.
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            Hormone accumulation in a sexually dimorphic motor nucleus of the rat spinal cord.

            The fifth and sixth lumbar segments of the rat spinal cord were found to contain a sexually dimorphic nucleus, the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus (SNB). The SNB, which contains motoneurons innervating perineal striated muscles in normal male rats, is adiminished or absent in normal females and in males with a genetic mutation rendering them insensitive to androgens. The presence of the nucleus is apparently not dependent on genetic sex, but on the action of androgens. The motoneurons of the adult male SNGH accumulate hormone after systemic injections of radioactive testosterone or dihydrotestosterone, but not estradiol, and the SNB motoneurons accumulate more of the injected androgens than do other motoneurons in the same spinal segments. These results demonstrate a morphological sex difference in hormone-sensitive motoneurons that are probably involved in the sexually dimorphic copulatory behavior of the rat.
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              Serotonergic and noradrenergic receptors in the rat brain: modulation by chronic exposure to ovarian hormones.

              Noradrenergic (alpha 1 and beta) and serotonergic (5HT1 and 5HT2) receptors were assayed in the brains of ovariectomized female rats treated for 2 weeks with estrogen, progesterone or a combination of both hormones. Estrogen treatment resulted in a decrease in the number of 5HT1 and beta adrenergic receptors, with a concomitant increase in 5HT2 receptors. Progesterone alone caused a smaller increase in 5HT2 receptors, a similar decrease in 5HT1 and had no significant effect on noradrenergic receptors. When given with estrogen, progesterone blocked the estrogen effect on 5HT2 receptors but did not inhibit the estrogen-mediated decrease in 5HT1 and beta adrenergic receptors. alpha 1 adrenergic receptors were not affected by any of the hormone treatment paradigms. beta adrenergic and 5HT2 receptors are often implicated in antidepressant action, and the modulation of these two receptor types by ovarian hormones might be relevant to hormone-linked affective changes such as premenstrual tension and post-partum depression.
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                Life Sciences
                Life Sciences
                Elsevier BV
                00243205
                September 1984
                September 1984
                : 35
                : 11
                : 1197-1206
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                10.1016/0024-3205(84)90191-7
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                © 1984

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