title: Effects of a high-glucose environment on the pituitary growth hormone-releasing hormone receptor: type 1 diabetes compared with in vitro glucotoxicity.
abstract: The present study investigated the effects of diabetes and high glucose on GHRH receptor (GHRH-R) mRNA and protein levels in the pituitary of diabetic rats 2, 21, and 60 days post-streptozotocin (post-STZ) administration. Two days post-STZ, the 2.5-kb GHRH-R mRNA transcript was increased. Twenty-one days post-STZ, both the 2.5- and 4-kb transcripts and a 72-kDa (125)I-GHRH-GHRH-R complex were elevated. Sixty days post-STZ, the 4-kb transcript remained increased and the 45-kDa (125)I-GHRH-GHRH-R complex (functional receptor) was decreased. Hypothalamic GHRH mRNA and serum total IGF-I levels were reduced at all three time points. To better understand the role of high glucose on GHRH-R regulation, time-course effects of 33 compared with 6 mM d-glucose (DG) were examined in cultured anterior pituitary cells from 2-mo-old healthy rats. Membrane lipoperoxidation was present in 33 mM DG, and GHRH-R mRNA levels were diminished after 24 h, Fluo-GHRH internalization was marginal after 16-24 h, and GHRH-induced cAMP levels were decreased after 24 and 48 h. Altogether, these results indicate that the increase of the 2.5-kb GHRH-R mRNA transcript in vivo could be a consequence of a decrease of hypothalamic GHRH mRNA levels in STZ rats. Since it does not affect primarily functional GHRH-R levels, the initial diminution of circulating IGF-I levels could result from a decreased GHRH-R stimulation by GHRH. Thus, the effect of glucotoxicity would be related to a decrease of functional GHRH-R protein, as observed in rats 60 days post-STZ and in cultured pituitary cells from healthy rats exposed to a high-glucose environment.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology of Aging, Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal Research Center, and Department of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: Karine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bédard
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Strecko
authors.forename: Karyne
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Thériault
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bédard
authors.forename: Christelle
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Veyrat-Durebex
authors.forename: Pierrette
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gaudreau
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000378:metabolism; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005452:Fluoresceins; D005947:Glucose / Q000633:toxicity*; D013007:Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone / Q000378:metabolism; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007334:Insulin-Like Growth Factor I / Q000378:metabolism; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D015227:Lipid Peroxidation / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D009336:Necrosis; D018384:Oxidative Stress / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D010903:Pituitary Gland, Anterior / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D011869:Radioligand Assay; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D018013:Receptors, Neuropeptide / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D018017:Receptors, Pituitary Hormone-Regulating Hormone / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D005452:Fluoresceins; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D018013:Receptors, Neuropeptide; D018017:Receptors, Pituitary Hormone-Regulating Hormone; D007334:Insulin-Like Growth Factor I; D013007:Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone; D000242:Cyclic AMP; C048250:somatotropin releasing hormone receptor; D005947:Glucose