title: Hypothalamic ventricular ependymal thyroid hormone deiodinases are an important element of circannual timing in the Siberian hamster (Phodopus sungorus).
abstract: Exposure to short days (SD) induces profound changes in the physiology and behaviour of Siberian hamsters, including gonadal regression and up to 30% loss in body weight. In a continuous SD environment after approximately 20 weeks, Siberian hamsters spontaneously revert to a long day (LD) phenotype, a phenomenon referred to as the photorefractory response. Previously we have identified a number of genes that are regulated by short photoperiod in the neuropil and ventricular ependymal (VE) cells of the hypothalamus, although their importance and contribution to photoperiod induced physiology is unclear. In this refractory model we hypothesised that the return to LD physiology involves reversal of SD expression levels of key hypothalamic genes to their LD values and thereby implicate genes required for LD physiology. Male Siberian hamsters were kept in either LD or SD for up to 39 weeks during which time SD hamster body weight decreased before increasing, after more than 20 weeks, back to LD values. Brain tissue was collected between 14 and 39 weeks for in situ hybridization to determine hypothalamic gene expression. In VE cells lining the third ventricle, expression of nestin, vimentin, Crbp1 and Gpr50 were down-regulated at 18 weeks in SD photoperiod, but expression was not restored to the LD level in photorefractory hamsters. Dio2, Mct8 and Tsh-r expression were altered by SD photoperiod and were fully restored, or even exceeded values found in LD hamsters in the refractory state. In hypothalamic nuclei, expression of Srif and Mc3r mRNAs was altered at 18 weeks in SD, but were similar to LD expression values in photorefractory hamsters. We conclude that in refractory hamsters not all VE cell functions are required to establish LD physiology. However, thyroid hormone signalling from ependymal cells and reversal of neuronal gene expression appear to be essential for the SD refractory response.
authors: Rowett Institute for Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
authors: Annika
authors: A
authors: Herwig
authors: Emmely M
authors: EM
authors: de Vries
authors: Matei
authors: M
authors: Bolborea
authors: Dana
authors: D
authors: Wilson
authors: Julian G
authors: JG
authors: Mercer
authors: Francis J P
authors: FJ
authors: Ebling
authors: Peter J
authors: PJ
authors: Morgan
authors: Perry
authors: P
authors: Barrett
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000818:Animals; D001835:Body Weight / Q000502:physiology; D006224:Cricetinae; D004805:Ependyma / Q000378:metabolism*; D007028:Hypothalamic Hormones / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D007031:Hypothalamus / Q000378:metabolism*; D007453:Iodide Peroxidase / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D027501:Monocarboxylic Acid Transporters / Q000096:biosynthesis; D064231:Nestin / Q000096:biosynthesis; D017111:Phodopus; D017440:Photoperiod; D044104:Receptor, Melanocortin, Type 3 / Q000096:biosynthesis; D043562:Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled / Q000096:biosynthesis; D054840:Retinol-Binding Proteins, Cellular / Q000096:biosynthesis; D012621:Seasons; D013004:Somatostatin / Q000096:biosynthesis; D059467:Transcriptome; D014746:Vimentin / Q000096:biosynthesis; D000097564:Iodothyronine Deiodinase Type II
chemical_list: D007028:Hypothalamic Hormones; D007453:Iodide Peroxidase; D027501:Monocarboxylic Acid Transporters; D064231:Nestin; D044104:Receptor, Melanocortin, Type 3; D043562:Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled; D054840:Retinol-Binding Proteins, Cellular; D013004:Somatostatin; D014746:Vimentin; D000097564:Iodothyronine Deiodinase Type II
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