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Pregnenolone and Its Sulfate Ester in the Rat Brain by Colette Corpéchot; Monique Synguelakis; Saliha Talha; Magnus Axelson; Jan Sjövall; Reijo Vihko; Etienne-Emile Baulieu; Paul Robel is a Neuroscience article available to read on EtoBox.

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Pregnenolone (P) and its sulfate ester (PS) have been characterized in the brain of adult male rats. The concentration of P (38.4 \_\_. 6.9 and 22.1 \_\_\_ 2.9 ng/g, mean ---S.D., in anterior and posterior brain, respectively) exceeded that of PS in brain (15.8 \_\_. 3.0 and 5.7 \_\_. 2.1 ng/g in the same fractions) and largely those of P and PS in plasma (1.3 \_\_. 0.2 and 1.4 \_\_\_ 0.3 ng/g, respectively). The level of P in brain was much larger than that of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DS), characterized and measured previously (Corprchot et al.S). Brain P and PS levels did not seem to depend on steroidogenic gland secretion: no meaningful difference occurred in brain 15 days after adrenalectomy plus orchiectomy, compared with sham-operated controls. It is proposed that, as that ofDS (ref. 5) P and PS formation or accumulation (or both) in the rat brain depend on in situ mechanisms unrelated to the peripheral endocrine gland system.

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Author

Colette Corpéchot; Monique Synguelakis; Saliha Talha; Magnus Axelson; Jan Sjövall; Reijo Vihko; Etienne-Emile Baulieu; Paul Robel

Published

1983

Language

EN

Field

Neuroscience (Life Sciences)