Teleost Fish Pituitary
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Healthy Brain-pituitary Slices for Electrophysiological Investigations of Pituitary Cells in Teleost Fish
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2018
The article describes an optimized protocol for making viable brain-pituitary tissue slices, using the teleost fish medaka (Oryzias latipes), followed by electrophysiological recordings of pituitary cells using the patch-clamp technique with the perforated patch configuration.
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Preparation of a High-quality Primary Cell Culture from Fish Pituitaries
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2018
Here we describe a protocol to prepare and maintain primary pituitary cell cultures from medaka (Oryzias latipes). The optimized conditions in this protocol take important parameters such as temperature, osmolality, and pH into consideration by mimicking the physiological conditions of the fish, thereby enabling physiologically more meaningful results.
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Labeling of Blood Vessels in the Teleost Brain and Pituitary Using Cardiac Perfusion with a DiI-fixative
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2019
The article describes a quick protocol for labeling blood vessels in a teleost fish by cardiac perfusion of DiI diluted in fixative, using medaka (Oryzias latipes) as a model and focusing on brain and pituitary tissue.
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Hypothalamic-Pituitary Axis
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2019
The response to stress—be it physical or psychological, acute or chronic—involves activation of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis. The HPA axis is part of the neuroendocrine system because it involves both neuronal and hormonal communication. Its function is to regulate homeostatic systems—metabolic, cardiovascular, and immune—providing the necessary means to respond to a stressor. What Happens During Stress In response to stress, the neurons in the hypothalamus release...
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Three-dimensional Alginate-bead Culture of Human Pituitary Adenoma Cells
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2016
Three-dimensional culture in alginate beads, due to its simplicity and reproducibility, was chosen to maintain the pituitary adenoma cells. The procedures included an initial enzymatic digestion and mechanical dissociation of the tumor tissue, and the subsequent cell suspension was encapsulated in alginate beads.
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Hypothalamic releasing hormones reach the organ through neuroendocrine connections, allowing neural activity to influence specialized endocrine cell types. These cells then release hormones that act on target tissues. This arrangement provides a direct route for the brain to adjust physiological processes, linking neural information with changes in growth, reproduction, metabolism, stress responses, and osmoregulation.
Different specialized cell types produce distinct hormonal signals, including growth hormone, gonadotropins, prolactin, and adrenocorticotropic hormone. Their separate outputs allow neural regulation to affect multiple physiological targets through coordinated but functionally different pathways. Examining these cell-specific secretions helps researchers relate pituitary activity to growth, reproductive function, environmental regulation, and stress physiology.
Feedback loops help connect hormonal effects in target tissues with continued regulation of endocrine output. Rather than functioning as a one-way signal, the system can integrate neural control with the consequences of hormone release. This organization is important for understanding how teleosts coordinate changing physiological states and how brain activity remains linked to regulated body functions and behavior.
The system provides a model for investigating how the brain converts neural information into endocrine changes. Researchers can use its organization to examine neuroendocrine signaling, the control of physiological state, and links between hormone regulation and behavior. Its relevance extends beyond fish because the system supports study of regulatory principles shared across vertebrates.
Research can address how endocrine signaling contributes to growth, reproduction, metabolism, stress, and osmoregulation. These areas connect hormone release with both internal physiology and environmental adaptation. Studying several processes together is useful because it shows how neural and endocrine regulation coordinate whole-animal responses rather than controlling isolated functions independently.
Teleost research offers a vertebrate context for examining how neural signals, pituitary hormones, target tissues, and feedback loops work together. Comparisons can clarify broad principles of brain-body communication while preserving attention to functions such as reproductive control and environmental adaptation. This makes the system valuable for connecting fish neuroendocrinology with wider neuroscience questions.