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antisense decreases brain estrogen receptor levels and
affects ventilation in male and female rats
Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, University of South Dakota School of Medicine, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069
We hypothesized that administration of an antisense
oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) to estrogen receptor (ER)-
mRNA decreases the ER protein in the neonatal rat brain, alters the sex-specific ventilatory responses to aspartic acid in rats, and counteracts the
effects of testosterone proportionate (TP) in females. One-day-old rat
pups were injected intraventricularly with vehicle, antisense ER ODN,
or scrambled ODN control. Additional groups of females received TP or
vehicle and one of the three treatments. Brain ER protein levels were
decreased by 65% at 6 h and 35% at 24 h after antisense
ODN. Aspartic acid decreased ventilation in all groups of weanling
males and females except ER ODN-treated females and TP-vehicle-treated
females. Aspartic acid decreased ventilation in all groups of adult
females except those given TP and in males. Weanling ER ODN-treated
rats were shorter and weighed less than controls. Only adult ER
ODN-treated males exhibited these traits. Thus neonatal ER affects
aspartic acid modulation of breathing and body growth in a sex-specific
and developmental manner.
cortex; hypothalamus; brain stem; N-methyl-D-aspartic receptor; aspartic acid; body weight; length
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