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The role of brain-gut peptide galanin in the regulation of prolactin (PRL) and beta-endorphin (beta-EP) release from anterior pituitary lobe was studied in vivo in conscious male rats and in vitro with cultured anterior pituitary cells of the rat. Galanin (1 microgram or 3 micrograms/rat) injected into the third cerebral ventricle of rats produced highly significant, dose-related increases of PRL resting secretion, but did not alter resting secretion of beta-EP and restraint stress-induced release of PRL and beta-EP. However, galanin (0.05, 0.5 and 1.0 micrograms/5 x 10(5) cells.ml-1) induced highly significant, dose-related increase of beta-EP secretion from dispersed anterior pituitary cells, but failed to alter significantly PRL secretion from the cultured cells. These results indicate that central galanin has a stimulatory role in pituitary PRL resting secretion via the hypothalamus, whereas peripheral galanin stimulates beta-EP secretion only via direct action of this peptide in anterior pituitary cells.
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