Uptake and Retention of Sex Steroids by the Baboon Pituitary Gland–Evidence of Sexual Dimorphism with Respect to Dihydrotestosterone
- 1 March 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Biology of Reproduction
- Vol. 28 (2), 377-383
- https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod28.2.377
Abstract
The localization and identification of the target cells for estradiol (E2) and dihydrotestosterone (DHT) were studied in the pituitary gland of male and female baboons (Papio cynocephalus) using autoradiography and autoradiography combined with immunocytochemistry. The largest number of cells which sequestered 3H-E2 were located in the pars distalis of both the males and females. Immunocytochemistry revealed that these target cells were predominantly gonadotrophs and mammotrophs, albeit a few somatotrophs and thyrotrophs were also labeled. A distinct sexual dimorphism was not observed with respect to the uptake and retention of the tritiated estrogen but was clearly evident in those animals given 3H-DHT. Significantly more cells in all three lobes of the male baboon, the partes distalis, intermedia and nervosa, concentrated the radiolabeled androgen as compared to that found in the females. Regardless of sex, however, the gonadotrophs were the major cell type in the pars distalis which was labeled. A small population of mammotrophs, somatotrophs and thyrotrophs also retained 3H-DHT. In both males and females, the pars nervosa was the portion of the hypophysis most sensitive to 3H-DHT. These findings indicate that all three lobes of the hypophysis of the male and female baboon contain target cells for E2 and DHT and that the propensity for DHT uptake is greater in males than in females.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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